![]() ![]() Experts concluded Lenzi had gotten a mild concussion without having hit his head. So they, too, were evacuated to the US in June 2018. Their children got mysterious nosebleeds. He and his wife both started to forget the names of tools and important phone numbers. Lenzi said his whole family was affected. "Twice I thought I was going to die from these headaches," he told UNH Today a year later. Mark Lenzi, an engineering officer at the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China reported intensifying headaches and bouts of forgetfulness in late 2017 and early 2018. 'I'm telling you, something's happened to me'īut reports were coming in from other parts of the world, too. "You suffer the physical wounds, there's also the moral injury of not being believed by an organization that I still do love to this day," Polymeropoulos said. Earlier this year, 21 US officials with the syndrome wrote a letter to the State Department saying they'd been denied proper medical care and that their evidence had been pushed aside. Meanwhile, those experiencing the condition say they continue to struggle with symptoms, and many think they've been ignored. Theories have ranged from pesticides to a microwave weapon to mass hysteria.īut after the number of Havana Syndrome reports grew - two recent cases started in Washington, DC, with one in the environs of the White House - President Joe Biden tasked two panels with discovering its origin. But the cause and mechanism continue to stump medical experts. Since then, more than 130 US diplomats, intelligence operatives, and other personnel stationed primarily in Russia, China, and Cuba have experienced the same mysterious issues. Examinations revealed strange and unexplained brain injuries. At the US embassy in Cuba in late 2016, diplomats and their families started experiencing headaches, vertigo, and hearing loss after hearing buzzing or clicking sounds. Polymeropoulos didn't know what to call his set of symptoms at the time, but they have since earned a nickname: Havana Syndrome, a reference to the location of the first reported cases. His ears started ringing and the room spun. ![]() One night, he woke with a start in his hotel room. "Ultimately, probably a trip I wish I hadn't taken," Polymeropoulos said. Marc Polymeropoulos in Moscow's Red Square, December 2017. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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