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Syndrome cases. sources say there have been a ballooning number of incidents of the mysterious health symptoms that appear to have been targeting americans and american diplomats and spies in recent months. lets go to katie bowe williams with more on this. there is concern about how the investigation into these cases has been handled? >> yeah. so what the inspector general is looking at is essentially how the cia handled officers who were coming to them and reporting this sort of strange array o...

Possible that russia is using some kind of directed energy or microwave device to either collect intelligence on officers in the field or potentially to harm them, but they really dont have any solid conclusions at this point. one of the things that has made these cases so tricky to diagnose is that because even though you have some officers that are reporting these sort of very unique symptoms like feeling head pressure or hearing a piercing directional noise, theres many officers who are suffe...

U.s. intelligence officials, and u.s. government officials who are working in vienna, but we still dont know whos behind this and what exactly is happening. so just to go over some of what these symptoms are because this -- these symptoms that are being reported by these folks serving in vienna are similar to those who experienced the havana syndrome. that was in 2016. and what that included was sudden vertigo, folks who were getting headaches, really, really bad headaches. they had some memory ...

Reporting symptoms similar to what is known as havana syndrome. the unexplained headaches, vertigo, and other weird sensory issues that affected u.s. officials both at home in the united states and abroad. nic robertson joining us live. its more information about what is causing the symptoms? >> reporter: the problem is there isnt an answer for that at the moment, julia. speaking to people in vienna, their problem is, and the authorities there say theyre absolutely working to find a joint soluti...

Havana syndrome. kylie atwood is here in washington with the latest developments. tell us what youve learned about this. >> well, this is pretty stunning news because what it demonstrates that these mysterious attacks we have heard about that started initially in 2016 on u.s. diplomats who were living in cuba are actually continuing and not only just continuing around the world but theres this new cluster of cases were learning about. as you said, about two dozen u.s. diplomats, u.s. intelligenc...

I want to remind those what the symptoms are. we dont know what is causing this but these are folks coming down with extreme nausea, they have vertigo after never having vertigo their whole life and t they have some trouble remembering things and some experienced traumatic brain injury. and so this is serious. and with the new cases about two dozen as we said, is that the biden administration has said this is front and center for them. but this demonstrates that this isnt something in the rearvi...

Northern irelands first clinics will open in october. im going to edinburgh tomorrow to get a brain scan. which is slightly daunting. but im part of a study looking at impact on brain of long covid. so, i guess im feeling a bit nervous about that, hoping that they dont find any problem. researchers at edinburgh university are scanning the brains of 100 people with long covid. i suffer migraines, vertigo and brain fog. could these be signs of brain damage? professor alan carson is a leading neuro...

Clinics will open in october. im going to edinburgh tomorrow to get a brain scan, which is slightly daunting. but im part of a study looking at the impact on the brain of long covid, so i guess im feeling a bit nervous about that, hoping that they dont find any problem. researchers at edinburgh university are scanning the brains of 100 people with long covid. i suffer migraines, vertigo and brain fog. could these be signs of brain damage? i would just like you to touch my finger. professor alan ...

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But im part of a study looking at impact on brain of long covid. so, i guess im feeling a bit nervous about that, hoping that they dont find any problem. researchers at edinburgh university are scanning the brains of 100 people with long covid. i suffer migraines, vertigo and brain fog. could these be signs of brain damage? can i get you to just walk backwards and forwards across the consulting room a couple of times? turn around and come back. i am quite conscious with my walk, i look a bit dru...