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US staffer suffers brain injury after 'sound' incident in China

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hold a news conference at the State Department

A US government employee in China suffered brain trauma linked to "abnormal sounds" that resembled the still-unexplained injuries that befell US and Canadian diplomats in Cuba last year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday.

US and Chinese authorities are investigating after the unnamed American citizen, who was assigned to the southern city of Guangzhou, was diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI).

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