First Cuba, now China?
Via Free Beacon:
Employees at the American consulate in Guanzhou, China have fallen ill and exhibited symptoms similar to those displayed by U.S. workers in Cuba, who in 2016 also heard strange noises.
At least two diplomats have recently been evacuated from China with the number possibly to rise soon, the New York Times reports. An American medical team has flown in to Southern China to check the diplomats and their families.
For months, American officials have been worried that their diplomats have been subjected to targeted attacks involving odd sounds, leading to symptoms similar to those “following concussion or minor traumatic brain injury,” the State Department says.
The cases in China have broadened a medical mystery that started in 2016, when American Embassy employees and their family members began falling ill in Havana. In all, 24 of them were stricken with headaches, nausea, hearing loss, cognitive issues and other symptoms after saying they heard odd sounds. The issue has roiled relations with Cuba, which immediately fell under suspicion, and led the United States to expel Cuban diplomats.