A National Academies of Sciences report published this weekend, which the U.S. State Department commissioned, concluded that radio-frequency energy was the likely culprit in a series of mysterious injuries at the U.S. Embassy in Havana between 2016-2017.
A study published Tuesday found “significant differences” in the brain constitutions of American diplomats evacuated from Cuba.
The government of Canada announced on Wednesday that it would cut its diplomatic presence in Cuba in half after documenting a new case of unexplained brain trauma in an embassy worker, a move that the communist regime responded to with hostility.
The Washington Post published an explanation piece on Monday attempting to clarify the ongoing saga of “Havana syndrome,” a series of medical ailments the U.S. State Department has branded “attacks” that have affected U.S. diplomats and staff in Cuba.
The only personally identified victim of unexplained attacks on U.S. and Canadian diplomats is recovering from severe brain injury, her mother told NBC News on Tuesday, just days after unnamed Canadian diplomats condemned their government for “abandoning” them in Cuba as their condition worsened.
Unnamed U.S. officials told NBC News in a report published Monday that experts studying the unexplained attacks on American diplomats in Cuba and China that have left some with brain damage and “concussion-like” symptoms believe the Russian government “is likely behind the alleged attacks.”
Scientists observing the available evidence surrounding medical phenomena that injured American diplomats in Havana, Cuba, and a private American citizen in Shanghai, China, posited in interviews this weekend that the “concussion-like” damage could be the product of a microwave weapon.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned Americans Wednesday not to “politicize” the revelation that a U.S. diplomat had suffered a mild traumatic brain injury after hearing shrill noises in Guangzhou, China – an incident that recalled the injury of two dozen diplomats in Havana, Cuba, after hearing shrill noises.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Thursday reveals that 21 of the Americans complaining of hearing loss, balance problems, and other cognitive issues after working at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba suffered “widespread brain network dysfunction” of an unknown cause.
The State Department confirmed on Friday that they have received complaints from private U.S. citizens who have traveled to Cuba of similar symptoms to those documented in American diplomats affected by unexplained “attacks” reportedly caused by sonic weapons.
Communist Cuban diplomats and state media outlets condemned the United States this week for withdrawing a significant percentage of its embassy staff from the island after a series of unexplained sonic attacks injured at least 21 diplomats and family members since November 2016.
The Assembly of Cuban Resistance, a coalition of nearly 50 anti-communist, pro-democracy groups, urged President Donald Trump in a letter published Tuesday to close the U.S. Embassy in Havana and its Cuban counterpart in Washington following a spate of sonic attacks that have left dozens of American diplomats with significant injuries.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert raised the number of Americans injured by unknown acoustic “incidents” while working for the department in Cuba to 21 on Tuesday, warning that doctors may continue to diagnose more.