US Embassy in China sends new alert for mystery health issue
Posted June 07, 2018 7:00 am
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) - The U.S. Embassy in China has sent its second alert in two weeks to its citizens over unexplained health issues that have prompted the evacuation of a number of U.S. government employees working at a consulate in a southern city.
Friday's alert urged Americans to seek medical help in the event they suffered any "unusual, unexplained physical symptoms or events, auditory or sensory phenomena, or other health concerns."
The alert comes as a U.S. medical team is screening more Americans who work at the Guangzhou consulate. A previous case in Guangzhou, disclosed last month, prompted the tests.
The incidents have raised fears the unexplained issues that started in Cuba in 2016 have expanded to other countries. China says it has uncovered no information that could point to a cause.
U.S. consulate buildings, center bottom, are surrounded by high-rise buildings in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province, Thursday, June 7, 2018. A U.S. medical team was screening more Americans who work in a southern Chinese city as the State Department confirmed evacuating a number of government workers who experienced unexplained health issues like those that have hurt U.S. personnel in Cuba and China. (Color China Photo via AP)
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A worker sweeps near the high-rise apartment buildings in the Canton Place where U.S. government workers who experienced unexplained health issues in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province, Thursday, June 7, 2018. A U.S. medical team was screening more Americans who work in a southern Chinese city as the State Department confirmed evacuating a number of government workers who experienced unexplained health issues like those that have hurt U.S. personnel in Cuba and China. (AP Photo/Kelvin Chan)
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A van passes high-rise apartment buildings in The Canton Place where U.S. government workers experienced unexplained health issues in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province, Thursday, June 7, 2018. A U.S. medical team was screening more Americans who work in a southern Chinese city as the State Department confirmed evacuating a number of government workers who experienced unexplained health issues like those that have hurt U.S. personnel in Cuba and China. (AP Photo/Kelvin Chan)
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Vehicles pass by high-rise apartment buildings in The Canton Place where U.S. government workers experienced unexplained health issues in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong province, Thursday, June 7, 2018. A U.S. medical team was screening more Americans who work in a southern Chinese city as the State Department confirmed evacuating a number of government workers who experienced unexplained health issues like those that have hurt U.S. personnel in Cuba and China. (AP Photo/Kelvin Chan)
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A man carries an umbrella past the U.S. consulate building in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province, Thursday, June 7, 2018. The United States has evacuated several more of its workers out of China after medical testing revealed they might have been affected by unexplained health incidents that have hurt U.S. personnel in Cuba and China. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said "a number of individuals" have been brought to the U.S. They are in addition to a U.S. worker in China who had been evacuated previously. (AP Photo/Kelvin Chan)
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A man carries an umbrella past the U.S. consulate building in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province, Thursday, June 7, 2018. The United States has evacuated several more of its workers out of China after medical testing revealed they might have been affected by unexplained health incidents that have hurt U.S. personnel in Cuba and China. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said "a number of individuals" have been brought to the U.S. They are in addition to a U.S. worker in China who had been evacuated previously. (AP Photo/Kelvin Chan)
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A woman walks by the U.S. consulate building in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province, Thursday, June 7, 2018. The United States has evacuated several more of its workers out of China after medical testing revealed they might have been affected by unexplained health incidents that have hurt U.S. personnel in Cuba and China. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said "a number of individuals" have been brought to the U.S. They are in addition to a U.S. worker in China who had been evacuated previously. (AP Photo/Kelvin Chan)
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