NEW: Inside the State Department frustration is rising among rank-and-file staffers and diplomats over what multiple officials say has been a tepid response to Havana Syndrome incidents by the department. Blinken has not yet met with any victims. cnn.com/2021/08/02/pol…
Fear of the mysterious illness is impacting diplomats' career decisions, sources say, with some foreign service officers deciding against taking jobs that they worry could make them targets of the unexplained phenomenon that has already sickened hundreds of US officials.
The impact of the health incidents is not isolated to seasoned diplomats. Lindsay Bryda, who worked as an intern at the US consulate in Guangzhou in 2018, told CNN she had the first and only seizure of her life days after her internship there ended in July 2018.
Bryda only learned later that the foreign service officer who had lived in her apartment immediately before her went on to receive treatment for symptoms consistent with Havana Syndrome, she told CNN. cnn.com/2021/08/02/pol…
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