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AT LEAST FIVE people have died in the US from vaping-related illnesses, according to authorities.
Hundreds of cases of severe pulmonary disease have been linked to vaping in recent months, with a number of teenagers in induced comas as a result.
Federal officials said that no single substance has been found to be present in all the laboratory samples being examined, however investigators in New York said they were now focusing on black market cannabis e-cigarette products containing vitamin E oil.
On Friday, local health authorities in California and Minnesota announced the vaping-related deaths of two individuals – both older and in relatively poor health, at least one of whom had used products containing THC, the principal psychoactive compound in cannabis.
There are now more than 450 possible cases of pulmonary illness associated with vaping, more than double the figure reported last week, according to Ileana Arias, acting deputy director for non-infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Daniel Fox, a pulmonologist in North Carolina, said that patients he had examined had a non-infectious pneumonia known as lipoid pneumonia, which can occur “when either oils or lipid-containing substances enter the lungs.”
New York’s health department said laboratory test results showed very high levels of vitamin E oil in cannabis cartridges used by all 34 people in the state who had fallen ill after using e-cigarettes, and as a result was focusing its investigation in that direction.
Vitamin E acetate is a commonly available nutritional supplement taken orally or applied to the skin, but is harmful when inhaled.
The Food and Drug Administration’s acting administrator Ned Sharpless said his agency was aware of the reports, “but no one substance, including Vitamin E acetate, has been identified in all of the samples tested” at a nationwide level.
Many patients reported vaping cannabis, but some said they had only inhaled nicotine products.
Tragic
The first reported vaping-related death was in Illinois in late August.
Oregon announced this week that the death of a patient in July was also being linked to vaping, and authorities in Indiana have said a death occurred there as well, although they did not mention when.
Patients have reported symptoms including breathing difficulty and chest pain before they were hospitalized and placed on ventilators.
Medics said many people had been initially misdiagnosed as having bronchitis or a viral illness until their symptoms escalated, at times to very extreme levels.
The parents of Kevin Boclair, a 19-year-old from Philadelphia, told local news CBS 3 Philly their son had been placed in a medically induced coma three weeks ago and may require a lung transplant if he recovers.
“I even know, as a nurse, he could die,” said his mother Deborah Boclair.
“So we are hoping it gets better, and I just want his friends to know and all these kids out there — I could tell the parents, ‘tell your kids don’t do this.’”
Many of those who have recovered received steroid treatments, though doctors are not sure whether it was the drugs that cured them.
Investigators are also uncertain about whether the cases have only been occurring recently, or were happening earlier but were not being linked to vaping because of a lack of awareness.
E-cigarettes have been available in the US since 2006 and are sometimes used as an aid to quit smoking traditional tobacco products like cigarettes.
Use among adolescents has skyrocketed in recent years: Some 3.6 million middle and high school students used vaping products in 2018, an increase of 1.5 million on the year before.
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Why not call it what it is “a petrol station”
Maybe a gas station?!
Bob’s place…..?
Stay classy Moneygall.
And theres those in Wexford still living off JFKs visit. Opening some new centre or something the other day. Fair play and good luck to both places.
Wexford has never had a JFK plaza. There’s a beautiful park in New Ross, the odd housing estate, but nothing as well fookin’ klassy as chipper and petrol station!
Does Supermacs still get its staff for free from Jobbridge?
Constriction????
How will Barack Obama contain his excitement???
By pumping a few gallons of gasoline one presumes=)
Read the entire article assuming it was some kind of civic/market square. Plaza is a bit misleading for a service station. Good jobs news I guess, but weird article.
Moneygall has a population of about 300 people. Jobs for 60 people (20% of the population) is fantastic for the village. Well done Pat and Una Mc Donagh.
Barack will be happy when he returns to see a nice big plaza station for his entourage of cars. Enda could do with more ideas for jobs like this around the country.
Did I read it right when it said “the only major purpose built motorway service facility on the new M7 route between Dublin and Limerick”, what about Mayfield?
aah where’s mayfield?
Is it really between dublin and limerick?
There is also a service station and services planned for Exit 27 at Birdhill. Planning pending. So it’s not altogether correct to say it’s the only one between Limerick and Dublin
I thought mayfield was in cork – I wouldn’t stop there if I were you !!!!
Yeah, I questioned that last part of the article there too, what makes it more surprising is the Junction 14 ‘Plaza’ also has a Supermacs, so this wont even be Supermac’s first service facility on the M7?
@patrick the one in Birdhill will never happen its too close to limerick to work
The title is misleading, it’s a petrol station. A plaza suggests that it may be a square or an open area built in the village itself. I’m sure he will be honoured :0/
Weird.
Barak O’ Plaza?
Tasty and tempting food at ….. O’Baraks ?
BaraCk, even!!
Hang on, what makes Obama so great that we are naming a plaza after him. I wish the America loving brigade would just look around and start to realise what the American dream really is. World domination most likely, and bomb the bejaysus out of anyone that steps in there way.
The Fall of the Republic explains it all , I won’t be visiting that petrol station !
haha, ‘we’ are not naming a petrol station after him, a businessman has decided to commemorate the visit of a popular presidents visit to his ancestral village. Makes sense seeing as everything else in the town is named after Obama, if you are serious in your point, maybe you should be questioning the Irish Government having a ‘JFK50′ celebration moreso than one businessman choosing a name for his business that you apparently dont like?!
Yes – he is popular in wall st – and with the Financial Industry [ Robbery Industry ] . He should be on trial for war crimes .
As for JFK – same goes – another war criminal – and aslo a great admirerer of Adolf hitler . No wonder we are in Finacial trouble . Our apparent heroes – the Yanks are the worlds biggest Terrorists – and more corrupt than FF – The biggest gangssetrs in History . Look up JFK admires Adolf Hitler on U tube .
What a pompus statement. Where do you get world domination from? Why not speak to the Chinese raping of Africa, or the European slaughter of the Amazon, or maybe the Russian stranglehold of fuel to Eastern Europe. Hate the U.S. because it’s cool to do so. Or maybe you could see this for what it is; A business venture latching on to a FREE UN -TRADEMARKED BRAND NAME. Its a way of making money and people like you with blind, badly researched points of view do nothing but fuel the buzz.
I never criticised the idea. I admire pat Mcdonagh as a business man. He seldom puts a foot wrong. I don’t hate America and had no idea it was cool to do so. But I cannot support any of their overseas mission over the past ten years in their so called war on terror. Even the title stinks of propaganda and how best to sell all this to gullible masses. Been to the states a few times and loved it. Now just where are those weapons of mass destruction?
You might want to remember that the US has been a haven for Irish immigrants. These immigrants played a major role in the building of the railroads, canals and much of the infrastructure of many a large US city. They have been fully integrated into American society achieving prominence in ensuing generations. We American Irish have never been denigrated, with the exception of the Anglophile, Hurst newspapers during the late 1800′s, Remember that many an Englishman refer to the Irish in the UK as “our Puerto Ricans.” What a disgusting slam both at us and the Puerto Ricans. Ok, so I may be dragging the point but you have bought into, as Hurst did, the English perception of the States. Yes, the US has played the role as the world’s policeman. But tell me why the Europeans hold the coat of the States behind their backs while decrying US over-involvement?
I wish they would not call it job creation when it is job relocation. Fuel, food etc sold here will be lost by some other station or restaurant somewhere else. It may be a great development but it will not create jobs.
Were it not for the name Barack Obama being used, I doubt ‘big service station in Offaly’ would be national news.
With the exception of him being the 1st African American president I truly don’t understand the adoration of that guy. His signing of the National Defense Aithorisation Act on New Years eve 2011 alone is enough to make me sick. That’s not even going into his governments treatment of corporate whistle blowers and continuing the ridiculous cruel wars America are running on a credit card. Oliver Stone described him as a wolf in a Sherpa cloak, a very accurate description from a once great filmmaker. And here we are naming a glorified petrol station after him.
Sheep’s clothing….auto spell and bad fingers!
Liked Sherpa’s better, deeper analogy.
Good man carlin. Well said
Sherpa cloak…sounds lovely and warm , where can I get one?
The Sherpa Shop in Moneygall have them… Cant miss it, Its beside the pub/shop/bookies/b&b/barbers building near Maggie Murphys house beside the village pump, where that cat sits all day. who belongs to that foreign guy from Nepal who owns the shop.
Dump
The constriction phase?
If it sells petrol at American prices…..that would be fantastic, you could call it bin laden unleaded for all I care.
moneygall is now more sickening than ballyporeen………
maybe they should twin…
This has been mooted before, but was shelved….
Merica. We’re kind of a big deal.
Utter rubbish
will have to stop and try the O’bama burger..
Another 15 minutes for yer man Henry. He might even get another spot on the late late
For 60 jobs who gives a shit what it’s called.
True, call it what u like as long as people are being employed. 75 or so to build it too
Credit due to owners of Supermacs,€6m investment in a small town, bringing much needed jobs and yet the trolls on the journal , you can read their comments! Some obviously don’t live in the real world. Fair play to Supermacs and Moneygall!
The could call it the black sheep off the family
Black irish
It works obviously. But really will Barack Obama go as low as them?
If there were a place with his name on it in Ireland that yoke would probably be meriting of it.
Junction 14 in mayfield is some spot I doubt moneygall will b like it best of luck do and shor birdhill exit has a site for sale for petrol station 2 with planing pending I tink can’t see the sign for it cos storm blew it down few mths ago
Pity it’s no a McDonald’s. So much nicer than slobber macs !
*not
Jeasus every country in the world should nowadays invest in their own citizens to go over to state and invest in their education and all that, you never know we might have some let me think… God knows Brzezowski’s landfill area. Maybe that president will visit it too. Other countries should really learn this. Milking fat cow’s, it’s all about that.
“a range of other options”, Barack Obama has said. What other options? So many innocent people killed, so much waste so that Obama, Bush etc. could keep their Jewish paymasters happy. Not that Mr. Obama has ever had much interest in the welfare of innocent people. They don’t come more innocent than a baby just about to be born and yet: “In 1997, Obama voted in the Illinois Senate against SB 230, a bill designed to prevent partial-birth abortions. In the US Senate, Obama has consistently voted to expand embryonic stem cell research. He has voted against requiring minors who get out-of-state abortions to notify their parents. The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) gives Obama a 100% score on his pro-choice voting record in the Senate for 2005, 2006, and 2007.”
This wonderful medical procedure goes as follows:
“The abortionist pulls the baby into breach position (feet first) and sequentially pulls out the baby’s legs and arms, leaving only the head inside the mother while the rest of the baby’s body is outside of the mother and even moving around. The abortionist then reaches in with a pair of scissors and cuts a hole in the back of the baby’s neck, and then sticks a suction tube into the hole. When the suction machine is turned on, the baby’s brain is sucked out, crushing the skull, at which point the now dead baby can be removed with ease.”
Of course Mr.Obama would justify this by saying the ‘welfare’ of the mother is all important. Please, please inform me how, in God’s name, the above procedure helps the mother in any way.
And then his beloved wife Michelle chips in with a letter, speaking of the partial-birth abortion ban, claims:
“The fact remains, with no provision to protect the health of the mother, this ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional and must be overturned.”
To think we welcomed these vermin into our country. I never thought a ‘first couple’ in the White House could make Bill and Hilary look good. I hope the chicken tastes good in Moneygall.
That guy standing behind Obama to the left looks very like the garda who was shot yesterday. Bit weird
This is so ridiculous it’s almost surreal. What is it that the man has done to call a plaza after him? He’s a suck up to the
bankers and private industry, like every other politician. How about naming it after someone who, without the incentives of being slapped on the cover of every magazine, has worked selflessly for their community. It’s not just this country that has it all wrong, this celebrity crap is everywhere.
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