The United States nonetheless doesn’t know what the sickness often called Havana Syndrome is or who’s accountable for it, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated in an interview on Thursday after extra American diplomats had been reported sick in Paris and Geneva.
Blinken stated your complete federal authorities is working to unravel the sickness, which has troubled about 200 US diplomats, officers and relations abroad.
“To date, we don’t know exactly what’s happened and we don’t know exactly who is responsible,” Blinken stated in an interview with MSNBC.
The Wall Street Journal on Thursday reported extra sicknesses amongst officers serving in US diplomatic missions in Paris and Geneva, the place the United States and Russia held safety talks on Monday over Moscow’s troop buildup close to the Ukraine border.
Blinken stated the United States has raised the sicknesses with the Russians however nonetheless can’t make a dedication about who was accountable. The mysterious ailment carries signs together with migraines, nausea, reminiscence lapses and dizziness. It was first reported amongst US officers within the Cuban capital in 2016.
Blinken stated he has met with State Department staff around the globe who described the sicknesses and the way these incidents disrupted their lives.
“There is no doubt in my mind that people have been directly and powerfully affected,” he stated.
“We are working overtime across the entire government to get to the bottom of what happened, who’s responsible. And in the meantime to make sure that we’re caring for anyone who’s been affected and to protect all of our people to the best of our ability.”