An Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at Overseas Embassies

by Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, et al.

In late 2016, U.S. Embassy personnel in Havana, Cuba, began to report the development of an unusual set of symptoms and clinical signs. For some of these patients, their case began with the sudden onset of a loud noise, perceived to have directional features, and accompanied by pain in one or both ears or across a broad region of the head, and in some cases, a sensation of head pressure or vibration, dizziness, followed in some cases by tinnitus,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309681375
• ISBN13: 9780309681377
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 76 Pages