Canada announced on Monday that its embassy staff in Cuba would be reduced by half after some of them had been diagnosed with a mysterious brain disease.
In recent months, 14 Canadians and 26 Americans in Cuba have been diagnosed with unsatisfactory symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue, headaches, difficulty in hearing and sight, loss of balance, nausea and inability to concentrate.
A statement from the Canadian Foreign Ministry said that medical tests showed that another embassy employee in Cuba had the same symptoms as other staff members, whose causes were not specified.
The Canadian authorities indicated that the injuries were recorded since early 2017. The ministry added that the security measures for the Canadian mission in Cuba have been increased and the number of employees has been reduced by half. The Canadian state television (CBC) reported that eight Canadian officials left their embassy in the Cuban capital Havana.
The Canadian and US authorities initially suspected that the attack was a sound weapon attack on their employees in Cuba, which strained the relationship of the two countries to the Havana authorities, but Canada later concluded that it was unlikely to link the order to the attack. Any link to these injuries.
In September 2017, most of its non-essential staff in Cuba were withdrawn by the United States after staff members of its embassy were mysteriously ill.
