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New NIH study sheds light on mysterious ‘Havana Syndrome’: Victims’ symptoms are ‘real’ and ‘quite profound’ – but injuries don’t show up on MRI much like a ‘mini stroke,’ one Pentagon medical consultant tells DailyMail.com

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A new government study tracking over 80 self-reported victims of ‘Havana Syndrome’ found no signs of brain injury — despite also identifying ‘real symptoms’ of the mystery ailment that researchers called ‘quite profound’ and ‘disabling.’

Persistent dizziness and balance issues were among those real symptoms for 28 percent of the embassy officials and other patients studied, according to the report.

But one Georgetown neurologist, who conducted early research into the syndrome for the Pentagon’s Special Operations Command, tells DailyMail.com their

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Caribbean holidays: A guide to Cuba, from the charms of Havana to the joys of Varadero beach

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On November 25, five years to the day since Fidel Castro’s death, I was sitting in the garden of Eclectico, a restaurant in Havana’s elegant neighbourhood of Vedado. Streets ran away on either side, pavements broken by the roots of Jaguey trees that shaded crumbling old mansions.

Listening to the singer Haydee Milanes perform a ballad, I sipped on a mojito, Cuba’s cocktail of mint, rum and lime.

This most lovely way to spend a Cuban evening has been all

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The Secrets of the So-Called “Havana Syndrome”

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Illustration by Adrià Fruitós.

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The Homesick Restaurant Run by Cuban Refugees

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In Havana, the restaurant called Centro Vasco is on a street that Fidel Castro likes to drive down on his way home from the office. In Little Havana, in Miami, there is another Centro Vasco, on Southwest Eighth—a street that starts east of the Blue Lagoon and runs straight to the bay. The exterior of Miami’s Centro Vasco is a hodgepodge of wind-scoured limestone chunks and flat tablets of Perma-stone set in arches and at angles, all topped with a

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Now Is the Time for Biden to Restaff the Havana Embassy

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