State Department commissioned a report by the National Academy of Sciences, and this summer CIA Director Bill Burns told NPR helping victims and finding out what's causing this illness is at the top of his list.īILL BURNS: And we are determined to get to the bottom of this. government is taking steps to deal with this mysterious illness. We're tired of the subterfuge of the U.S. The key thing first is we want to ensure timely and proper medical treatment, and then we want answers. MCCAMMON: He's been helping them seek recourse. government is not doing everything that it needs to be doing to identify these cases both past and present in order to stop it from happening in the future. MARK ZAID: I have my concerns that the U.S. government wasn't taking their concerns seriously enough. He says many of his clients feel the U.S. intelligence officials who've suffered such brain injuries. Lawyer Mark Zaid has represented Polymeropoulos and several other former U.S. But cases have been reported in India, Austria and, just this week, at the Colombian Embassy in Bogota. diplomats and intelligence officials in Havana, Cuba. government first publicly acknowledged cases reported by U.S. officials and their families have reported similar symptoms that are known as Havana syndrome because the U.S. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #3: A possible Havana syndrome incident may be the reason Vice President Kamala Harris' trip from Singapore to Vietnam was delayed for several hours. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #2: Two hundred Americans have now come forward to report possible symptoms of the mysterious illness called Havana syndrome. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #1: American diplomats stricken with the mysterious and unexplained condition are now speaking out. MCCAMMON: Doctors were not able to diagnose a root cause of his illness. POLYMEROPOULOS: I started this kind of incredible journey of seeing, you know, multiple doctors, multiple MRIs and CT scans and X-rays. 2 official for clandestine operations in Europe. He was on CIA business in Russia, where he had just become the No. MCCAMMON: That's Polymeropoulos speaking with NPR last October. But I had just had incredible vertigo, dizziness. MARC POLYMEROPOULOS: I was awoken, you know, in the middle of the night. It was the middle of a Moscow winter about four years ago when Marc Polymeropoulos was asleep in his hotel room until suddenly.
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