Worker suffered ‘mild traumatic brain injury’ similar to medical problems among US diplomats in Cuba last yearThe US has issued a health alert to US citizens in China after one of its consulate workers in the south of the country suffered a mild traumatic brain injury, similar to a string of mysterious medical problems among US diplomats in Cuba last year. The secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said that the US consular employee in Guangzhou suffered symptoms that were “very similar and entirely consistent with the medical indications of the Americans working in Havana”. On 18 May, according to Nauert, the Beijing embassy “learned that the clinical findings of this evaluation were similar to what might be seen in a patient with head concussion or mild traumatic brain injury”. Following that diagnosis, a health alert was issued to US citizens in China on Wednesday. Last year, doctors evaluating more than 20 US government workers in Cuba found brain abnormalities in the employees who reported ear-ringing and hearing loss after experiencing loud sounds.

Source: The Guardian May 23, 2018 12:42 UTC