Havana syndrome is psychological, according to an analyst who quotes a doctor 1:20
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Colombian Foreign Minister Marta Lucía Ramírez told reporters Wednesday night that the government is "ready to collaborate" with the United States after the news this week that more than A dozen US officials at the embassy and their families recently reported symptoms consistent with the so-called "Havana syndrome."
Ramírez said that the Colombian government "is always willing to collaborate" in the search for justice and that the United States is "an ally of absolute priority."
“As President Iván Duque has said, this is an issue that only the United States will be able to clarify.
We will give them all the collaboration that is within our reach ”, added the Colombian Foreign Minister.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to visit Bogotá next week.
US officials in Colombia reported symptoms of Havana syndrome
They investigate possible cases of Havana syndrome in Austria 2:24
Officials report "Havana syndrome" in Bogotá
More than a dozen US officials working at the US embassy in Colombia and their families have reported symptoms consistent with "Havana syndrome" in recent weeks, according to a US official and a source familiar with the situation.
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Some officials who reported symptoms in Colombia had to be evacuated from the country, including a family with a minor, the sources said.
Some of those affected have previously reported incidents of the mysterious disease when they were based in other countries, a source said.
The incidents, now among hundreds the United States is investigating, come as Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to visit Bogotá next week.
State Department spokesman Ned Price declined to comment on the incidents reported in Colombia or on Blinken's upcoming trip during the department's briefing on Tuesday.
Austria investigates reports of Havana syndrome among US diplomats in Vienna
The international travel of senior officials in the Biden administration has been affected twice in recent months by reported incidents of the so-called Havana syndrome.
The State Department is now alerting US officials to reported cases when they occur in the missions where they are serving.
But the Department is not publicly releasing basic information such as the number of people affected and the location of incidents, data that the State Department used to publicly release at press conferences about the incidents in Cuba and China.
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