(CNN) Vaping-related lung injuries have caused 57 confirmed deaths in 27 states and the District of Columbia, including the youngest victim yet at 15 years old, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

The numbers, current as of January 7, include a total of 2,602 people hospitalized for lung injury linked to vaping in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

Dallas County health officials reported on New Year's Eve that a Dallas County teenager with a "chronic underlying medical condition" had become the county's first death linked to the lung injury outbreak. On Thursday, Dallas County Health and Human Services confirmed to CNN that the person was 15.

"Reporting a death in a teen due to EVALI is so tragic," DCHHS Director Dr. Philip Huang said in a statement last week. The term EVALI is used among health officials as shorthand for "e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury."

"We are seeing that severe lung damage, and even death, can occur with just short term use of these products," Huang added.

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