Image: Shutterstock/sfam_photo Image: Shutterstock/sfam_photo BRAIN SCANS OF about 40 US diplomats injured in mysterious circumstances in Cuba revealed visible differences compared to those in a control group, according to researchers who analysed their brains.
Valdes-Sosa told reporters that the study “does not show, contrary to what has been speculated… that the group of diplomats suffered brain damage during their stay in Cuba”. From late 2016, diplomats posted in Havana and some of their family members suffered unexplained symptoms ranging from poor balance and vertigo to lack of coordination, unusual eye movements, anxiety and what victims called a “cognitive fog”.
The US government never publicly explained the cause of the mysterious illnesses. It neither confirmed nor denied the possibility of attacks using some sort of acoustic weapon, as some US media reported, without offering proof.