Two dozen U.S. diplomats and government employees who experienced dizziness and ear pain from a mysterious illness while assigned to Cuba were found to have suffered inner-ear damage, according to a new study by doctors who first treated them.
The report, released Wednesday, said the majority of the 25 individuals reported intense pain in one or both ears and experienced tinnitus, or a ringing in ears.
All of the individuals noticed “unsteadiness and features of cognitive impairment,” according to the report.
The study by physicians at the University of Miami and the University of Pittsburgh was published Wednesday in Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology journal.
The doctors found that the patients displayed “abnormalities in the otolithic organs,” or damage to the inner ear that controls balance.
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