PressTV-Microwave weapons used on US diplomats: Report

US scientists and doctors increasingly suspect unconventional microwave weapons caused over three dozen American diplomats and their families to fall sick in recent months in Cuba and China, according to a report by US media.

Douglas Smith, the director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of Pennsylvania, said microwave weapons are now considered a main suspect, The New York Times reported Sunday.

Smith told the Times that a medical team that examined the diplomats is increasingly sure they suffered brain injury.

“Everybody was relatively skeptical at first,” he was quoted as saying, “and everyone now agrees there’s something there.”

The victims reported hearing intense high-pitched sounds in their hotel rooms or homes followed by symptoms that included nausea, severe headaches, dizziness, fatigue, hearing loss and sleep problems.

The Times said there were many unanswered questions as to who might have carried out…

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