Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald on Apr 27, 2023, arcamax.com
(Photo): Danierys Font, 42, Senior Administrative Assistant at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, sits in a rotary chair used to diagnose diplomatic personnel, who experience neurosensory symptoms after exposure to a unique sound/pressure phenomenon in Havana.
The sound stopped after he moved to another residence, but the symptoms remained, he told the Miami Herald: “I would wake up with nosebleeds that wouldn’t stop.”
A doctor the CIA sent to investigate had a similar incident himself in his Capri Hotel room just hours after arriving on the island’s capital in April 2017. “I woke up with severe pain in my right ear. I had a deafening, resounding headache and nausea. I sat on the bed and realized I was awake. I had this extreme feeling of pressure. I thought, ‘This can’t be happening; it’s crazy,’” he told the Herald.
That morning, the physician was so disoriented he said he didn’t know whether to pull or push to open a door and couldn’t concentrate enough to count money to exchange currency.
Around the same time, in early 2017, two Canadian diplomats posted in Cuba had similar symptoms, suddenly feeling extremely nauseous and disoriented, with headaches and ear pain, the two told the Herald.
The children of some Canadian diplomats also had nosebleeds, nausea, loss of memory, and concentration and vision problems for no apparent reason.
In December 2017, a high-ranking CIA official, Marc Polymeropoulos, at the time deputy chief for operations in Europe and Eurasia, woke up in a hotel room in Moscow “with a terrible case of migraine and vertigo,” he told the Herald.
All of these people have been diagnosed with brain injuries or inner-ear problems that doctors who treated them believe are part of a new disorder known for the place it all started: Havana Syndrome. They went through years of tests and rehabilitation therapies and are still suffering from debilitating effects.
But after so many years, they still struggle to be believed.
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The sound stopped after he moved to another residence, but the symptoms remained, he told the Miami Herald: “I would wake up with nosebleeds that wouldn’t stop.”
A doctor the CIA sent to investigate had a similar incident himself in his Capri Hotel room just hours after arriving on the island’s capital in April 2017. “I woke up with severe pain in my right ear. I had a deafening, resounding headache and nausea. I sat on the bed and realized I was awake. I had this extreme feeling of pressure. I thought, ‘This can’t be happening; it’s crazy,’” he told the Herald.
That morning, the physician was so disoriented he said he didn’t know whether to pull or push to open a door and couldn’t concentrate enough to count money to exchange currency.
Around the same time, in early 2017, two Canadian diplomats posted in Cuba had similar symptoms, suddenly feeling extremely nauseous and disoriented, with headaches and ear pain, the two told the Herald.
The children of some Canadian diplomats also had nosebleeds, nausea, loss of memory, and concentration and vision problems for no apparent reason.
In December 2017, a high-ranking CIA official, Marc Polymeropoulos, at the time deputy chief for operations in Europe and Eurasia, woke up in a hotel room in Moscow “with a terrible case of migraine and vertigo,” he told the Herald.
All of these people have been diagnosed with brain injuries or inner-ear problems that doctors who treated them believe are part of a new disorder known for the place it all started: Havana Syndrome. They went through years of tests and rehabilitation therapies and are still suffering from debilitating effects.
But after so many years, they still struggle to be believed.
©2023 Miami Herald. Visit miamiherald.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Continue reading:
https://www.arcamax.com/currentnews/newsheadlines/s-2816038?fs
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