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U.S. Employee in China Suffers Brain Injury in Case Recalling Cuba Sound ‘Attack’
- Incident ‘very similar’ to attacks in Cuba, Pompeo says
- Embassy official says China assures U.S. it’s investigating
U.S. Employee in China Diagnosed with Brain Injury
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A U.S. government employee in China reported abnormal sensations of sound and pressure ahead of being diagnosed with a mild brain injury, in a case reminiscent of diplomats who fell ill in Cuba last year.
“The medical indications are very similar and entirely consistent with the medical indications that have taken place to Americans working in Cuba,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at congressional hearing in Washington on Wednesday. “We are working to figure out what took place both in Havana and now in China as well.”