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A comment on Cases of Vaping-Related Lung Illness Surge, Health Officials Say. Parent comment

Re:Cases of Vaping-Related Lung Illness Surge, Health Offici... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:48PM (#20900225)
This is the FDA's wheelhouse. CDC handles epidemiology.
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Re:Cases of Vaping-Related Lung Illness Surge, Health Offici... by nvrspyx on Friday September 06, 2019 @06:14PM (#20900364)
epidemiology

> the branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.

disease

> a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.

Is this not a disease? One of which the actual cause is still unknown and symptoms hitherto unseen? I guess it could still ultimately be the result of physical injury to the lungs, but it still seems up in the air. You may still be right, but I don't think it's as simple as "CDC handles epidemiology".

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Re:Cases of Vaping-Related Lung Illness Surge, Health Offici... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday September 06, 2019 @07:16PM (#20900729)
They don't regulate the use or sale of controlled substances.
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Re:Cases of Vaping-Related Lung Illness Surge, Health Offici... by rrix2 on Saturday September 07, 2019 @10:41PM (#20908265)
Do they regulate funding of research around either the material or its affect on the human body?
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