(CNN) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that an incident involving a US government employee stationed in China who reported "abnormal sensations of sound and pressure" suggesting a mild brain injury has medical indications that are "very similar" and "entirely consistent" to those experienced by American diplomats posted in Havana. WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that an incident reported in Guangzhou, China, had similarities to a case in Cuba last year where U.S. diplomats became ill amid accusations that they had been victims of a sonic attack. The embassy was told Friday "that the clinical findings of this evaluation matched mild traumatic brain injury," according to Lee, who said she could not reveal any more details to protect the employee's privacy. Employee In China Hit With 'Sensations Of Sound And Pressure'

The State Department said that a U.S. government employee assigned to Guangzhou, China, has reported experiencing "vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure." The U.S. government in October expelled 15 Cuban diplomats from the United States for what it said was Cuba's failure to protect staff at the U.S. embassy in Havana from mysterious health incidents at one point thought to possibly have been acoustic "attacks".
The United States issues a health alert in China, following a government employee reporting "abnormal sensations of sound and pressure", one in a range of physical symptoms, from late 2017 through to April 2018. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the State Department is moving medical teams into place in Guangzhou, adding that the incident was "entirely consistent" with reported "sonic attacks" in Cuba in 2016 and 2017.