‘Havana Syndrome’: There Is Little Evidence To Support A Series Of Unexplained Ailments A Deliberate Attack

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‘Havana Syndrome’

1 Mar 2023
The United States intelligence community has concluded that there is little evidence to support the belief that a hostile foreign power was responsible for “Havana Syndrome”, a series of unexplained ailments that diplomats and officials say they experienced across the world.
The declassified findings were released on Wednesday, showing the results of an investigation conducted by seven US intelligence agencies over the course of several years.

The story was first reported by the Washington Post, which wrote that the investigation “contradicts in nearly every respect” claims from the afflicted individuals that they were “victims of a deliberate attack — possibly at the hands of Russia or another adversarial government”.
Some had speculated that “Havana Syndrome” symptoms, which include migraines, nausea, memory lapses and dizziness, could have been caused by a mysterious energy weapon, a theory that Wednesday’s report casts doubt on.

Report finds no evidence foreign powers behind ‘Havana Syndrome’

Multiyear investigation by US agencies casts doubt on speculation that a hostile power was behind unexplained ailments.

www.aljazeera.com

And therefore?
The recent unexplained outbreak among U.S. foreign service workers with stupendously coincidental symptoms is merely a confluence of hypochondria?
Not "adversarial government", so probably Martians?

We can consider the intelligence community conclusion the latest word, but not the last word.

It's either something, or it's nothing. It's several victims have rejected the latter explanation.

 

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update?

“These individuals have real symptoms and are going through a very tough time,” said NIH rehabilitation medicine expert Leighton Chan, who led one of the studies, at a briefing for reporters last Friday. Nothing in the new medical findings contradicts the assessment of the injuries in the intelligence community report, he said. ...

The abrupt onset of these symptoms led to years of debate among scientists and those affected about possible causes, which ranged from pesticides to group psychology to noise from crickets. Now two medical studies that were conducted by the National Institutes of Health and released on Monday morning might finally have an answer. The researchers compared more than 80 of these affected individuals with similar healthy people. The results, detailed in the Journal of the American Medical Association, show no clinical signs or brain image indications to explain those widely varied symptoms. The JAMA findings follow the 2023 release of an intelligence community assessment that found that the injuries were not the result of foreign attacks. More likely, the assessment suggested, they were tied to previous injuries, stress, environmental concerns and “social factors” such as group psychology, in which illness symptoms reported by one individual in a community can spread serially among its members.

People with ‘Havana Syndrome’ Show No Brain Damage or Medical Illness

The largest and most comprehensive studies of ‘Havana Syndrome’ point to stress or group psychology as likely explanations for most “anomalous health incidents”

www.scientificamerican.com