iPhone shocks Chinese man into coma

Barely had the row over a Chinese woman killed allegedly by an electric shock from an Apple iPhone died down, when another shock case in China was recorded.

 

The victim in the latest alleged iPhone shock incident was identified as Wu Jiantong, 30, who was in intensive care at a Beijing hospital, tech site ZDNet reported.

 

In Wu's case, he was shocked while connecting his iPhone 4 to a "third-party" charger, ZDNet said.

 

Citing a report published July 18 on Beijing Wan Bao, ZDNet said Wu was connecting his phone to a charger when he cried out he was getting shocked.

 

His sister rescued him by pulling the charger out of the electric socket.

 

She said she "felt needle-like pains on my fingertips," adding the current was "running from my finger, through to my arm and body, and to the foot."

 

The report quoted her as saying her brother was not responsive, "and was twisting and foaming at the mouth."

 

Doctors at a hospital managed to revive him. His condition stabilized after three days but he remained in a coma and ICU.

 

"It was no doubt an electric shock," ZDNet quoted Wu's doctor at the Hai Dian Hospital in Beijing as saying.

 

An investigation showed the charger to be a "counterfeit or third-party product," it added.

 

Details of the incident broke out shortly after a Chinese stewardess was allegedly fatally electrocuted while answering a phone calls on her iPhone 5 while it was being charged.

 

Apple is investigating the earlier incident. — TJD, GMA News