Cuba calls on US and Canada to investigate 'sonic attack' claims
by Ian Sample Science editor from on (#3R6XD)
Luis Velizquez, Cuba's most senior scientist, says joint inquiry needed to find truth behind alleged attacks on diplomats
The most senior scientist in Cuba has called on his opposite numbers in the US and Canada to assess the evidence behind claims that mysterious attacks in Havana left American and Canadian diplomats with inexplicable concussion-like brain injuries.
Luis Velizquez, a neurologist who was recently appointed president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, has asked the US and Canadian national science academies for a joint scientific inquiry to examine the evidence behind the alleged attacks.