A US GOVERNMENT report has claimed that a “directed” radio frequency is likely causing mysterious symptoms among diplomats in embassies in Havana and elsewhere.
Dozens of US and Canadian diplomats and their families in embassies in the Cuban capital first reported suffering from what became known as ‘Havana syndrome’ in 2016.
Their symptoms included dizziness, fatigue and headaches, as well as hearing and vision complications.
For some, symptoms began with the sudden onset of a loud noise accompanied by pain in one or both ears or across their head, and in some cases, a feeling of head pressure.
US and Canadian authorities have long suspected an attack using some sort of acoustic weapon, which led to heightened diplomatic tensions between Washington and Cuba.
Last year a Canadian study suggested the illnesses may have been caused by a neurotoxin in anti-mosquito spray.
Earlier this week, it emerged that Cuban scientists were helping investigate whether pesticides caused the mysterious health complaints.
The spate of illnesses dealt a blow to the historic agreement to improve relations between Washington and Havana forged by the Obama administration.
Though the results of the study between Cuba and Canada isn’t expected until next month, the US has offered an explanation for the first time about what might be causing the symptoms.
In a report, scientists at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that the symptoms experienced by diplomats are consistent with “the effects of directed, pulsed radio frequency energy”.
“The acute initial, sudden-onset, distinctive, and unusual symptoms and signs are difficult to ascribe to psychological and social factors,” the report reads.
“However, the significant variability and clinical heterogeneity of the illnesses… leave open the possibility of multiple casual factors including psychological and social factors.”
The report also contained a number of recommendations, including for plans to carry out more comprehensive research into the phenomenon.
Canada has previously concluded that the use of an acoustic weapon is “unlikely”.
Researchers at the Brain Repair Centre in Halifax suggested “exposure to neurotoxins” was a more likely explanation.
Contains reporting from © AFP 2020.
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They could always leave Cuba, head home and feel better. Everybody wins
@Niall Mulligan: why would they do that? These are diplomats that work for Embassies in Cuba.
@The Upside-down Triangle:……”and elsewhere……”
5g conspiracy here we go
@john s: Agreed John they will be out in their droves, not a mask or any sense of logic between them
@john s: Russians have been experimenting with frequency weapons since the Cold War, it’s fairly known about technology
@Dylan Byrne: yeah but not 5g
@Paul Furey: Yah that’s what I’m saying, frequency weapons have been around since long before 5g/Covid
@john s: are you implying Cuba has 5G infrastructure and has weaponised it?
@Dylan Byrne: lol
And no one ever thought it could be the rum?
I’ll take the Canadian explanation any day.
Surely if it’s a radio frequency they can use equipment to detect it.
@keano: yes. I would have thought so, given they can bomb a bicycle in the Hindu Kush mountains from a desk in California. Wonder if they have checked for radon gas or how often they are micro-reheating slimming world meals???
@keano: sure if you know what you’re looking for.
More BS from the yanks, the Republicans never wanted to restore ties with Cuba and Trump dismantled everything Obama had done in Cuba including imposing flight embargoes, oil embargoes and medicine embargoes in 2018 to make their hardships even worse, if it wasn’t for Canada they would be in real trouble. Its a crime against humanity what America is doing to Cuba.
@Pat Casey: Many, many Cubans within the US did not want relations with a real military dictator restored. Most who lost family members, their homes, savings, livelihoods in Cuba before they set sail in dingies to reach safety. Obama was a failed president looking for something people ignorant of facts would laud. Seems he found it.
@Mary Morrisey: Most of these Cubans were criminals and elites who left Cuba with the American mafia.
@Mary Morrisey: you mean the rich fascists that supported Batista? Good riddance , they can stay in Miami forever
What’s the frequency Kenneth?
Yes they’re called crickets and USA diplomats collective hysteria.
RF energy is deadly, it’s all about intensity and concentration. A powerful klystron energy source is able to cook food, why not brains. Check the specs on your kitchen microwave and the door.
Was outside this very building in 2016 just before Castro died. Even then they wernt mortal enemies, I doubt its anything suggested. I suspect its the food that’s giving them grief. Cuba is essentially a 2rd world country, any food related technology is American Built from the 1960s and sanitation is quite poor. I got was hit with a parasite and lost about 3 stone as a result.
Was outside this building in 2015. Its a strange country
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