The head of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), Eric Rubin, spoke about the negative impact of the “Havana syndrome” on hiring new employees, reports The Guardian.

Rubin says people fear the government won't be able to help them if they face this scourge and are much less willing to work abroad. The syndrome also had a negative impact on the work of existing employees of US diplomatic missions.

“People got really injured and hurt, it drastically undermined our morale, our readiness, our ability to recruit new employees for the diplomatic service,” Rubin said.

Earlier, the US intelligence community claimed that the cause of the "Havana syndrome" in American diplomats could be an external influence in the form of pulses of electromagnetic energy or ultrasound.

Since 2016, U.S. diplomats stationed in Cuba and China have been reporting unusual sensations, including loss of hearing and vision, headaches and nausea, and problems with memory and balance. A number of Pentagon officials have said that the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces may be behind some of the attacks. A CIA task force was set up to investigate what was going on.

At the beginning of 2022, the American media reported that the symptoms of the so-called "Havana syndrome" allegedly appeared in employees of American diplomatic missions in Geneva and Paris, one employee needed to be evacuated to the United States for treatment.

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