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There was a problem with the devices or what's inside of them. all patients showed similar pneumonia-like symptoms >> we don't yet full understand the impact on the body, either short term or long term >> reporter: doctors say while vaping nicotine is legal, it doesn't mean the products themselves are safe medically there's still a lot we don't know there's also concern the problem could be more widespread, reaching other states that aren't tracking cases. the american vaping association tells nbc news millions of adults vape nicotine each month without issue and say it's more likely that the ...

>> that's true. but the biggest hurdles we have in rural america is lack of healthcare, lack of availability, cost. sometimes you have to travel two, three hours to the nearest doctor. >> dana: out of reach. >> who has a car to drive, senior citizens, it's hard for them to travel. >> dana: it's good we can shine a light on it. volunteerism is great, but it can't do everything. i wanted to also ask you about this. there's a report that there's lung damage happening to some teenagers from e-vaping cases. we have four cases reported in minnesota along with 12 in wisconsin and six in illinois from...

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Sort of infection, you treat it with antibiotics. in these cases the patients did not get better, some of them got worse needing to be in the icu. medical teams are asking what tie is tying all these patients together, and what they find is that they all had some history of vaping recently. so that's the association there and it's a pretty strong association. but it's still an investigation because they don't know exactly what it is that's causing this sort of lung damage. you mentioned where these cases are happening and there's probably a clue in here as well as you look at the maps. these s...

What's up baffling medical experts with the level of severity and the various cases. some teens come in and respond very well to treatment but others literally spent weeks in the intensive care unit with severe lung damage. the majority of the cases appear to be clustered in illinois, wisconsin, minnesota command california. there appear to be regional commonality to symptoms. for example, here's a doctor from the minnesota department of health. watch this. >> in our cases, the teenagers presented with shortness of breath, with fever, some had gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiti...