{"id":105052,"date":"2020-12-09T08:49:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T08:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=105052"},"modified":"2020-12-09T08:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T08:49:04","slug":"havana-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/havana-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Havana Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which of the statements are correct?<\/strong><br><strong>i) Havana syndrome is associated with a illness found in people of Havana , Cuba.<br>ii) It is because of exposure to microwave radiations.<\/strong><br>a) i<br>b)ii<br>c) both i) and ii)<br>d) none<br><strong>Answer: (b)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Recently a report by the National Academies of Sciences (NAS), USA has found \u201cdirected\u201d microwave radiation to be \u201cplausible\u201d cause of sickness experienced by its diplomats stationed in Havana, Cuba, four years ago.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Havana syndrome is name given to sickness experienced by USA diplomats in 2016 at Havana,Cuba.<\/li><li>The symptoms of the neurological illness included nausea, severe headaches, fatigue, dizziness, sleep problems, and hearing loss.<\/li><li>Directed pulsed RF energy appears to be the most plausible mechanism in explaining these cases among those that the committee considered.<\/li><li>Interestingly, neither the State Department nor the FBI have publicly pointed to \u201cmicrowave weapons\u201d as being the cause of the \u201csyndrome\u201d.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By \u2013 Kameshwar Shukla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/what-is-havana-syndrome-us-report-russia-7095390\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/what-is-havana-syndrome-us-report-russia-7095390\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the statements are correct?i) Havana syndrome is associated with a illness found in people of Havana , Cuba.ii) It is because of exposure to microwave radiations.a) ib)iic) both i) and ii)d) noneAnswer: (b) Context Recently a report by the National Academies of Sciences (NAS), USA has found \u201cdirected\u201d microwave radiation to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":105053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-105052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105054,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105052\/revisions\/105054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}