The first cases of what became known as Havana syndrome were reported in 2016. U.S. diplomats and foreign officials in places like Russia, China and Cuba began to suffer from a mysterious illness.

If you’re familiar at all with so-called Havana syndrome—the mysterious swath of neural disorders affecting a growing number of U.S. diplomats working abroad—you’re probably familiar with some of the ...

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Last month, an incredibly vague but also weirdly specific memo started making the rounds at the Pentagon. It was about something Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin labeled an “anomalous health incident,” ...

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The U.S. government wants to know why some U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers are getting sick. It's called Havana syndrome, after the illnesses turned up in Havana. Many say they've suffered ...

On August 6, U.S. security and intelligence officials met in Washington, D.C., to boost an interagency investigation of the so-called “anomalous health incidents” (AHI) that have been reported by ...

In 2016, diplomats abroad started reporting mysterious symptoms including hearing loud noise accompanied by pain in one or both ears or across the head. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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