Havana syndrome: will we ever understand what happened?
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. forgets who she is overnight. In Detroit a man is arrested but he was never at the crime scene. |
| 0:16.0 | In Spain disturbing pictures of young girls have appeared and no one knows who's behind them. |
| 0:22.0 | Something strange is happening. |
| 0:24.0 | A collision between people and artificial intelligence. |
| 0:28.0 | Discover more in the Guardian's new series Black Box. |
| 0:32.0 | Listen wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes, Monday and Thursdays. |
| 0:37.0 | This is late 2016 and diplomats and other officials at the U.S. Embassy in Havana start coming down with a mystery affliction. |
| 0:57.0 | That's the Guardian's World Affairs editor Julian Borgia. |
| 1:01.0 | He's been following the strange story of Havana Syndrome since the beginning. |
| 1:05.0 | And they start hearing strange clicking grating noises that seem to be coming at them from a specific direction. |
| 1:15.0 | For some of those affected, the impact is devastating. |
| 1:18.0 | They start to experience a wide range of really troubling symptoms, |
| 1:25.9 | dizziness, nausea, severe headaches, |
| 1:29.6 | in some cases, crippling symptoms. Since 2016, hundreds of cases have been reported, mostly among |
| 1:36.9 | US officials posted abroad, but we're no closer to |
| 1:43.4 | understanding |
| 1:44.4 | an understanding what caused it. Theories range from an episode of mass hysteria |
| 1:46.8 | to brain damage caused by targeted attacks with a secret microwave weapon. |
| 1:51.8 | Could there be another explanation? |
| 1:54.8 | There's a third box here which is a functional disorder which is a real illness |
| 1:59.7 | occurring in the brain from all to brain function. |
| 2:02.4 | So in the week from all to brain function. |
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