Canada has just cut back the number of staff they are leaving at their embassy in Cuba after 14 personnel have reported symptoms of a mystery illness that has also affected American embassy staff. The U.S. has already cut back on the number of people in their own embassy.
Doctors in Miami have investigated the issues with U.S. staff, finding the patients to have suffered inner ear damage. How that damage occurred is unknown.
There were reports of a sound at the embassies that were believed by some to be a ‘sonic attack’ that was purposely harming people. The noise has more recently been identified as the sound of a cricket native to the Caribbean island region, seeming to rule out that theory. Other theories include microwaves shot into the embassy.
The doctors in Miami also were quick to point out that they found damage that was ‘objectively’ there in the patients’ inner ears, which would seem to rule out any possibility of a mass psychosomatic incident. In other words, it’s not just in their heads… er, minds.
The fact is, though, that no one knows where the illness is coming from. But the fact that multiple foreign embassy staffs in a country that was considered hostile until recently are experiencing the same issues seems awfully suspicious. Cuba, for its part, continues to say that they have no idea what the cause of the illness is.
