WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday said it is a “top priority” to determine who is responsible for a series of mysterious health incidents affecting U.S. personnel, widely known as “Havana syndrome.”
“We are bringing to bear the full resources of the U.S. government to make available first-class medical care to those affected and to get to the bottom of these incidents, including to determine the cause and who is responsible,” Biden said in a statement after signing into law the Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks Act of 2021, or the HAVANA Act.
The new law will subsidize care for victims and require the administration to report to Congress on the episodes. “Civil servants, intelligence officers, diplomats and military personnel all around the world have been affected by anomalous health incidents,” Biden said.
