Is the Havana Syndrome a Neurological Disease?

The spread of the so-called Havana Syndrome is giving indications of its being an infectious neurological disease.  Granted, the average viewer without the evidence being gathered and restricted by the CIA may be way off base.

The syndrome has spread to our embassies in Berlin, Austria, and Columbia.  These are not communist controlled countries, and Russia or China would find it hard to run pulsed microwaves in them.  It has always bothered me that you could supposedly run microwaves into buildings.  Their wavelengths of a few inches would be absorbed by the embassies thick walls.

Sound waves?  Outside my window at night is something at the community pool that buzzes all night.  The jets take off from the airport at 7 am, and the trucks on the nearby freeway hill start earlier.  The hedge trimmers, leaf blowers and large lawnmowers have three mornings during the week.  Plus, I have tinnitus.  Welcome to the modern world.

Think about which organization of Americans go all over the world, including the most wild countries with the worst medical science for detecting new infections.  Then that organization brings their members home to mix with others from elsewhere in the world.  Then resends their workers out to different countries.  There are supposedly around 200 who have now gotten the syndrome.

The case shown on NBC is one where a victim then found that three of their neighbors who were also diplomatic families got infected.  Still sounds like an infectious disease.

Knowing how bad the State Department can be when their jobs are given as favors by a President who doesn’t care about foreign relations, it doesn’t make sense that a foreign power would benefit by harming average employees, especially if they are not identified as CIA operatives.  We won’t even mention that a certain Texas Senator is single handedly withholding qualified and experienced State Department appointees, probably just to make sure that Biden has fewer accomplishments and agreements to his credit. 

We understand that investigators are examining blood samples and brain scans, but it may still be hard to pin down a new neurological disease. 

Clearly, with this or any other disease threat, the State Deparment and embassies should be quarantining and compartmentalizing workers from different countries to avoid any potential future spreads.  They also should immediately look for sensible disease origins rather than complex espionage battling.  That said, we have to end the hacking, especially in elections.

About Dennis SILVERMAN

I am a retired Professor of Physics and Astronomy at U C Irvine. For two decades I have been active in learning about energy and the environment, and in reporting on those topics for a decade. For the last four years I have added science policy. Lately, I have been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic of our times.
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