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    HAVANA SYNDROME: WHAT’S CAUSING THE MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS?

    Jan 20, 2022 3 minutes
    by DR CHRISTIAN JARRETT
    “At the heart of this phenomenon is the ‘nocebo effect’, which is the harmful reverse of the ‘placebo effect’. In this case, the mere belief that something is harmful can provoke real symptoms”

    n December 2021, a former FBI agent previously posted to Guangzhou in China began legal proceedings against the US government. The agent claimed the US Secretary of State and the Department of State hadn’t taken the situation seriously enough when, while in Guangzhou, the agent and his family had begun

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