Canada Reports First Respiratory Illness Linked to Vaping
- Youth was in intensive care on life support but recovered
- Province issues order requiring hospitals to gather data
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A youth has been diagnosed with a severe respiratory illness linked to vaping in Ontario, the first reported incident of the condition in Canada.
The individual was admitted to an intensive care unit and required life support but recovered and is now at home, according to Christopher Mackie, medical officer of health at the Middlesex-London Health Unit in the southwest of Canada’s most populous province.