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posted by janrinok on Wednesday May 23 2018, @11:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the can-you-hear-that? dept.

A U.S. government health alert has sparked comparisons to symptoms experienced by State Department employees in Cuba:

US officials have issued a health alert after a US government employee stationed in southern China reported "abnormal sensations of sound and pressure" that indicated a mild brain injury.

The official, assigned to the city of Guangzhou, reported a range of physical symptoms from late 2017 through to April 2018, and was sent back to the United States for assessment, the State Department said. The US Embassy in Beijing learned on May 18 that the clinical findings of the evaluation matched that of a "mild traumatic brain injury," an embassy spokeswoman told CNN.

The alert will raise comparisons with a series of unexplained incidents in Cuba that led to the withdrawal of most US personnel from the embassy in Havana. The cause of those incidents, reported in late 2016 and early 2017, still remains a mystery.

[...] The State Department said in its Wednesday statement that anyone who experienced "unusual acute auditory or sensory phenomena" while in China should move away from the source of the noise.

Also at BBC, CNBC, South China Morning Post, and MarketWatch.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by black6host on Thursday May 24 2018, @01:50AM (2 children)

    by black6host (3827) on Thursday May 24 2018, @01:50AM (#683357) Journal

    Oh, I forgot to mention this from TFS/A: "mild traumatic brain injury". I mean really, I don't want any kind of traumatic brain injury. Not even mild. Is that like being in a mild coma? Or mildly pregnant? At least if's probably not worse than mildly dead, I have to say that.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday May 24 2018, @07:45AM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday May 24 2018, @07:45AM (#683462) Journal

    > I don't want any kind of traumatic brain injury.

    You should ditch the TV, the social media, uh, the mother in law too...

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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @01:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @01:37PM (#683537)

      I've actually done all three :)