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Up in the hospital, stop vaping black market thc oils immediately. the cdc says just stop until they complete their investigation. dr. janet is here. shes treated teens in emergency rooms because of this. tell me what your experience has been with these teens. >> shep, what im seeing is i have patients, young patients, coming in with severe chest pain, shortness of breath, coughing. ive had a patient coughing so hard his lung collapsed. we put him in the hospital. ive had young, young adults com...

School in alabama reports it took doors off of the bathroom stalls to cut back on kids vaping. as you might imagine, the new york city council today not to be left in the cold in the middle of a catastrophe is trying to see if they can vote on a ban of flavored juul pods. the american medical association is urging everybody to stop using e cigarettes until health officials find out more ant what is making people sick. cdc officials say theyre investigating 450 cases of this illness, which may be...

Ingredient in marijuana. groups like the american vaping association stand by the safety of the product, saying they have helped millions of americans successfully quit smoking, and that the concerns arent so much about tobacco, rather thc and other substances that are also vaped. >> dana: people are concerned, especially parents. thank you. remaining crew members trapped inside the capsized cargo ship off the coast of georgia have been rescued on sunday. in the hours immediately after the accid...

Recongeal back into some sort of oil, could that be causing the problem? they dont know for sure. but thats what the investigators are starting to focus on. so far the vitamin e substance has been found only in thc or cannabis-containing vapes, not nicotine. therein lies another include. the cdc, centers for disease control, had this to say as well, until a definitive cause is known, people should consider not using ecigarettes. its a pretty extraordinary statement to say, hey, look, we dont kno...

Reporter: veterinarians say cbd can be helpful, but you have to make sure it has no thc, that can make you high. its important to start low and go slow. >> make sure the brand you are purchasing offers full transparency as to, they are sourcing their cbd. >> from what we know so far, something like cbd will be partner safer than many of the pharmaceuticals prescribed in veterinary offices. reporter: stay in touch with your trusted vet. in washington, lauren blanchard, fox news. robert: the mirac...

In the state of new york theyve been zeroing in on vitamin e acetate. vitamin e. something taken by the mouth as a supplement. usually fine. people rub it on their skin, usually fine. but if you vaporize it, turn it into these other compounds, absorb it into your lungs and then the compounds recongeal back into oil, could that be causing a problem? they dont know for sure but thats what investigators are starting to focus on. so far, the substance, vitamin e substance is only found in thc, and n...

And they said even e-cigarette use? and she said yes. she was very honest with me. when she got in the car, she said mom, ive been vaping, but i quit a week ago because my chest started to hurt. so the admitting doctor at the hospital was the one who kind of started to put and two together and said were kind of right in the middle of this outbreak of case, and he said this sounds a little bit like what im hearing come out of the midwest, which is where we were coming from. she just declined. she...

Started to put and two together and said were kind of right in the middle of this outbreak of cases and this sounds like what im hearing coming out of the midwest, and it just -- she just declined. she went up to 35 liters of oxygen. her cat scans showed she had a disfuse -- >> did they say what caused it? weve been reading reports about some vitamin e oil thats in some of the -- some of the vapes that have thc in them snnchts they asked her and she was very honest. she said she had vaped both v...

Find no other reason. >> vapeing is the only common factor to date. many have reported vaping thc or other substances. we dont know what else may have been in these products or what is causing these injuries. >> health officials are calling on people to avoid vaping until they figure out why some people are getting seriously ill. arthel: i dont let people smoke around me. i dont let people vape around me. lauren, thank you. >> good idea. eric: lets bring in a family and emergency medicine physic...

Fatigue, fever and weight loss. >> today were issuing a warning to all residents about the use of these devices as potentially harmful to proper lung function. >> now, e-cigarettes or vaping have been sold for about a decade and touted as a healthier alternative to nicotine cigarettes, but the illnesses and deaths being linked just became known in the last year. seniors for disease control and food and drug administration have not confirmed that the deaths and sicknesses are vaping related, but ...