BEIJING — A U.S. government employee in southern China reported abnormal sensations of sound and pressure, the State Department said Wednesday, recalling similar experiences among American diplomats in Cuba who later fell ill. In an emailed notice to American citizens in China, the department it wasn’t currently known what caused the symptoms in the city of Guangzhou, where an American consulate is located. “A U.S. government employee in China recently reported subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure,” the notice said. Despite hundreds of billions in annual trade between them, China and the U.S. are considered strategic rivals for influence in Asia. Symptoms, sounds and sensations reportedly varied dramatically from person to person.

Source: National Post May 23, 2018 09:06 UTC