ALERT: Major Breakthrough in Investigation of " Mysterious " Lung Disease Outbreak

There has been a major breakthrough in the investigation of the outbreak of more than 300 cases of a " mysterious " lung disease that the CDC and many other health agencies have told the public is due to the vaping of electronic cigarettes. And now, everything is starting to make some sense.Illicit THC vape carts that were obtained from a number of case patients that were tested in federal and state laboratories havetested positive for vitamin E acetate, an oil that just started to be usedlate last year as a thickening agent in bootleg THC vape carts. Apparently, forevery single case in New York State for which testing is complete, vitamin E acetate was found in at least one of the THC vape carts that were used by the patient. Almost simultaneously, testing of recovered THC vape carts by the FDA revealedvitamin E acetate in 10 of 18 tested samples. Importantly, the FDA reported that it found no contamination in any of the nicotine e-liquids tested.The Rest of the StoryWhile there are still a lot of unknowns, the pieces of the puzzle are just beginning to fit together. One the great mysteries about this outbreak is " Why now? " Nicotine e-liquids have been on the market for many years and are being used by millions of vapers but there has never been a problem. Something must have changed to result in the outbreak occurring at this time. But what?Now there is a possible explanation: it turns out that there was a major change made in the bootleg THC vape cart drug dealing indust...
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