PHDSIG Resources and Information
Update from the Public Health Drugs Special Interest Group to the Scottish Directors of Public Health (June 2019):
Vaping and Lung Injury Links (November 2019)
- the case definitions used by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in relation to the US lung injury outbreak. The current primary case definition can be found here and the current out-of-hospital case definition can be found here. Any updated versions would appear on this page: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease/health-departments/index.html#primary-case-def
- You may also wish to access their regular updates on the outbreak https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease.html
- our slides on this – a PHE blog has been published today which covers all the points raised in our presentation to the DHART: https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2019/10/29/vaping-and-lung-disease-in-the-us-phes-advice/