Health Ministry experts have reported on a new disease that is developing in vaping and electronic cigarette enthusiasts.
Information about this appeared on the department’s Telegram channel.
The disease is called EVALI. It is an acute lung injury with symptoms that are very similar to COVID-19.
With EVALI, an increase in body temperature, general weakness and malaise, cough, and shortness of breath are recorded.
Meanwhile, pathological changes are occurring in the lungs themselves, experts warned.
Differences from coronavirus infection appear at the very beginning. At first, a person experiences problems with the digestive system.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova noted that the number of smokers in Russia has more than halved since 2009.
But the situation with smoking has become more complicated by the emergence of many vaping consumers.
