U.S. Expands China Health Alert Amid Mysterious Illness Reports

U.S. Expands China Health Alert Amid Mysterious Illness Reports
The entrance of the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China, on June 7, 2018. Wong Sue-Lin/Reuters
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BEIJING—The U.S. State Department on June 8 issued an expanded health alert for all of China amid reports that some U.S. diplomats based in the country had experienced a mysterious malady resembling a brain injury. 
The symptoms are similar to those exhibited by U.S. personnel in Cuba after they heard strange noises in an apparent sonic attack.