The CDC study was first identified in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report which was also commissioned by the State Department, and also inexplicably withheld from congressional and public scrutiny after it was submitted in August 2020. Only after key senators learned of its existence later in the fall and pressed then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to turn it over did the Trump administration finally provide the report to a few Senate offices. “However, one challenge with this investigation is the lack of a well-defined diagnosis and an uncertain source of exposure attributable to the physical symptoms experienced by USG employees….” “The primary steps of an epidemiologic investigation are to establish the existence of an outbreak and verify the diagnosis,” the report stated in its conclusions. Although the Department of State commissioned the CDC investigation at the end of 2017, it did not provide CDC analysts with unredacted medical records for evaluation until eleven months later, in November 2018. personnel for the neuro-cognitive symptoms reported in Cuba. “Additional USG employees reported similar unexplained symptoms, some pre-dating the onset of the original report,” CDC investigators found.Īccording to the report, the State Department subsequently developed a clinical protocol called HABIT-“Havana Acquired Brain Injury Tool”-to screen U.S. ![]() personnel in Cuba to share “any unusual auditory and sensory events” and symptoms with the in-country medical team. official-also identified as from the CIA Station by other media sources-reported “an unexplained onset of similar symptoms” in early February 2017, the State Department issued an advisory to U.S. Embassy in Havana for evaluation of “vestibular disturbances, vision changes, cognitive deficits, auditory symptoms, sleep impairment and headaches.” After a second U.S. The report confirms what has been widely reported in the media-that in late December 2016, the first individual (reported in the media to be a CIA officer) went to the medical unit in the U.S. Fifteen patients met the “epidemiologic case definition” the CDC established and were identified as “presumptive cases.” Another 31 were considered “possible cases ” the 49 remaining individuals were ruled out as having experienced what has been called “the Havana Syndrome.”ĬDC breakdown of 95 cases of possible exposure to the Havana Syndrome.Īlthough the CDC investigation failed to identify a cause for the cluster of symptoms-among them headaches, nausea, tinnitus, disorientation, and cognitive deficits-the study does shed further light on how the State Department responded to early reports of health problems. According to the report, CDC researchers reviewed the case files of 95 individuals who had received medical evaluations at the State Department, National Institutes of Health, and medical centers at the University of Miami and University of Pennsylvania. On December 29, 2017, the State Department’s Bureau of Medical Services formally requested a CDC inquiry into the “unexplained phenomenon” of brain-related symptoms suffered by CIA and State Department personnel and family members in Havana. The National Security Archive obtained the redacted CDC study through the Freedom of Information Act in January 2021, as did. But its existence was revealed only after a more recent evaluation by the National Academy of Sciences which referenced the CDC report leaked to the press in December. Titled “Cuba Unexplained Events Investigation-Final Report,” the CDC study was completed more than a year ago. “The evaluations conducted thus far have not identified a mechanism of injury, process of exposure, effective treatment, or mitigating factor for the unexplained cluster of symptoms experienced by those stationed in Havana, Cuba,” concluded the CDC study. personnel in Cuba but could not determine the nature of the injuries nor the cause, according to an 18-page CDC report posted by the National Security Archive today. Washington, D.C., Febru– The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a two-year “epidemiologic investigation” of the mysterious medical incidents suffered by U.S. ![]() FOIA Advisory Committee Oversight Reports.
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