Fresh row over mysterious sickness affecting US diplomats in Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

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The US government asked doctors at the University of Pennsylvania to run tests on 21 of the diplomats. The results, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Jama), found no evidence of white matter tract abnormalities, though more advanced scans are underway. “They were similar to what you might see in the same age control group,” said Douglas Smith, director of the Centre for Brain Injury and Repair, who led the medical assessments.

Robert Bartholomew, an expert in mass psychogenic illness (MPI) who teaches at Botany Downs Secondary College in Auckland, said he was “floored by the study” and claims that it reads like US government propaganda. In the article, the doctors state that their objective is to describe “neurological manifestations that followed exposure to an unknown energy source,” but Bartholomew points out that there is no proof that any kind of energy source affected the diplomats, or even that an attack took place. “It’s like the authors are trying to get us to believe an attack has occurred,” he told the Guardian.


More investigation should be required, and not simply allowed to fade away, leaving people to assume the original charges by the Trump spokesmen were authentic.