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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @01:57AM (3 children)
Why doesn't the embassy install some microphones so we know if accoustic attacks are occuring? I'm getting tired of hearing how people might have been attacked, since it would be trivial to detect.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 24 2018, @02:05AM (2 children)
And what if the acoustic weapon is only focused on an individual's ears?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_amplification_by_stimulated_emission_of_radiation [wikipedia.org]
Not so trivial to detect anymore.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 24 2018, @02:32AM (1 child)
If that person is in an embassy, it would make the sonic attack very detectable as a result. Keep in mind that embassies tend to have a lot of sound dispersing materials in them. Even a well-aimed attack is go to lose energy going through these materials which can then be picked up by microphones.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 24 2018, @02:37AM
Maybe it would be easier to pick them off when they enter or exit the building.
Whatever the case, there isn't much evidence to go on (or maybe the evidence is under wraps, since there are diplomatic implications).
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