
More here:-What is Havana Syndrome?
By Nicholas Davis * | July 28, 2021
In December 2016, diplomats and CIA officers at the US Embassy in Havana began to report mysterious symptoms. Dozens were suddenly and without warning falling ill with headaches, fatigue, hearing and vision loss, severe and debilitating cognitive impairment, tinnitus, brain fog, vertigo, and loss of motor control. Since then over 200 more diplomats, spies, DOD, and NSC personnel, from US embassies around the world and at home, have experienced some or all of this cluster of symptoms.
This mysterious malady is known as Havana Syndrome. Now numbering over 200 cases, Havana Syndrome is affecting US officials in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. Its effects are complex, painful, and inconsistent. Victims describe being bombarded by waves of pressure in their heads or hearing the noise of an immense swarm of cicadas filling their heads. Others portray the effects as a wall of sound, in one place but not another, as if they are deliberately targeted. Most recently, in January 2020 a pair of National Safety Council staffers experienced symptoms just outside the White House, with one telling Adam Entous of The New Yorker that when it hit, he felt “as if I was going to die.”
For the past four years, US intelligence agencies, the Departments of State and Defense, the White House, and governmental and non-governmental medical experts have been analyzing the data, looking for the root cause of Havana Syndrome. A major issue is that symptoms and severity differ from person to person, plus there is little rigorous data. Information shared between government agencies and medical institutions has lacked uniformity, leading to skepticism about the efficacy of these claims. Although government officials publicly call Havana Syndrome “anomalous health incidents,” major media outlets label them attacks--and it seems that top officials privately refer to them as attacks as well. Spokespeople for the State Department, Pentagon, and White House seem wary of antagonizing geopolitical rivals without proof.
As more information comes to light and medical studies are completed, two distinct positions on the causes of Havana Syndrome are emerging. Dominant schools of thought stem from reactions to two reports both published in 2020, one by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and the other by the Journal of the American Medical Association(JAMA). The 2020 National Academies report concluded that there were four plausible attack vectors on US officials: directed radio-frequency energy, chemicals, infectious agents, and psychological and social factors. The JAMA report reached similar conclusions. Both reports gave credence to the phenomenon but also cautioned that lack of scientific evidence limits conclusions and that each potential cause is speculative.

What is Havana Syndrome?
This article explores the mysterious ailment known as Havana Syndrome that is affecting US officials in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas.
