A Brief Overview of the National Outbreak of e-Cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury and the Primary Causes

Affiliations

• ¹ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA. Electronic address: eakiern@emory.edu.
• ² Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
• ³ National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
• ⁴ National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
• ⁵ National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
• ⁶ National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
• ⁷ National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
• ⁸ National Center for HIV, Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.