Advanced brain scans of U.S. Embassy employees who reported falling ill while serving in Havana revealed significant differences from a control ...
while serving in Havana revealed significant differences from a control group, according to a new study published on Tuesday .
"Most of these patients had a particular type of symptoms and there is a clinical abnormality that is being reflected in an imaging anomaly," she said. The health problems of more than two dozen workers surfaced in 2016 after the administration of former President Barack Obama reopened the embassy in an effort to improve relations with the Communist-run island nation. Most of the employees were removed from Cuba in 2017.
In an earlier JAMA report, the university team described the injuries experienced by the first 21 diplomats it examined as like a concussion without a blow to the head."Finding evidence of brain change doesn't provide evidence of brain injury or damage," said Dr Jon Stone, a professor of neurology at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, who was not involved in the study.
Sceptics have challenged State Department assertions that some unknown weapon had attacked the workers.
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