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In reply to the discussion: U.S. investigators increasingly confident directed-energy attacks behind Havana Syndrome [View all]PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)9. Things are often named after where the first known occurance happened...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome
(This has especially been the case of viral outbreaks)
Havana syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms reported by United States and Canadian embassy staff first in Havana, Cuba, dating to late 2016, and subsequently in other countries
(This has especially been the case of viral outbreaks)
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U.S. investigators increasingly confident directed-energy attacks behind Havana Syndrome [View all]
reACTIONary
Oct 2021
OP
That's a standard type of microwave device that produces an effect like that of a microwave oven...
PoliticAverse
Oct 2021
#7
That was originally "Wuhan virus", named for it's first apparent outbreak location...
PoliticAverse
Oct 2021
#39
What about extremely loud ultrasonic or infrasonic sound waves? ("loud" if they could be heard)
LudwigPastorius
Oct 2021
#21
The problem is, that some sort of "Havana syndrome" is so unlikely as to defy belief.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Oct 2021
#13
There was a recent article in the nypost that said it was crickets. (link below)
Gore1FL
Oct 2021
#15
Ever since at least the BushCheney era, we civilians in the US have been regaled with stories of...
Hekate
Oct 2021
#18
Some of the responses show an igrnorance of the possibility of phased-array beamforming ...
eppur_se_muova
Oct 2021
#22
As a lot of you have already said, this is old science and is not difficult to build
infullview
Oct 2021
#26
I read some reports that said some instances could be pesticide poisoning
womanofthehills
Oct 2021
#34