Study: Diplomatsjuka real but yet unresolved
the Researchers studied 25 people who suffered from the mysterious symptoms that the american diplomats in Cuba reported on says that something really has happened – but what is still unclear.
” We don’t know what they were exposed to and we really can’t draw any conclusions whether it was intentional or not, said Carey Balaban, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
in Addition to having heard the abnormal sound, have the diplomats told if symptoms such as dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, fatigue, restlessness, anxiety, and insomnia. Symptoms were detected for the first time at the end of 2016, and made that Washington called home large portions of their staff from the Havana, and expelled several cuban diplomats. Later came reports that konsulatanställda in China suffered from similar ailments.
the Theories surrounding the mystery have talked about the affected victims of mikrovågsvapen, sound waves, any kind of virus infection or psychological disorders that spread in the group. Both Cuba and China have denied any involvement.
the Researchers in Carey Balabans group from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Miami have examined 25 people just after they said to have received the symptoms but before they have been diagnosed. The study published in the scientific journal Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology.
Several people had balansrubbningar, suggesting that the inner ear is affected. In contrast, measured no hearing problem other than for people who had it already in the past. The study says nothing about how the patients feel in the now.
Although the researchers can’t give suggestions on what caused the symptoms is the so likstämmiga that there is no possibility that they were fabricated.
Likely there is, according to the study, a common source that caused the cognitive and emotional changes and the effect on the inner ear, even if the source of the day is unclear.
last year, The US that about 25 of the country’s diplomats and their family members in Cuba suffered from symptoms resembling those that may arise from brain damage. Also ten canadian diplomats on the island have suffered from similar ailments.
Doctors in the united states at the University of Pennsylvania have previously examined 21 of the victims, who fell ill after having been in a hotel or diplomatbostäder in the city of Havana in Cuba.
In the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the diplomats who were in Havana suffered damage to the brain without any sign of external violence.
The new study from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Miami based on 25 hit points, among other things, on the balansrubbningar suggesting that the inner ear is affected.
Sources: The Los Angeles Times, Reuters