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Cubans launching sonic attacks on US embassy? Not what we're hearing, say medical boffins

thames

Re: Were previous medical reports wrong?

Yes, Canada never bought into the "high tech sonic weapon" story, regarding it as fantasy. As noted in the PS, current Canadian detailed medical investigation points to over use of fumigants to kill mosquitoes in the embassy building and diplomatic staff residences. The fumigants were also detected in the bodies of people affected by the symptoms. The insecticide fumigants are based on on neurotoxins, and so have a direct effect on the nervous system, including the brain.

At the time fumigants were being used excessively due to panic over Zika virus, which was spreading throughout South America. As a result, embassies were having their diplomatic buildings sprayed as much as five times more frequently than is normal. I suspect the Americans were doing the same in their embassy buildings.

Canadian researchers also feel that any psychological effects of tension or pressure would have played at best a minor role in the effects seen.

Any "mass hysteria" that is involved in this seems to be affecting people in Washington who seem to think the Cubans have some unimaginably advanced new high tech weapon and are testing it out on multiple embassies in Havana before presumably using it to engage in world conquest.

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