Cuba illness still baffles

CUBAN authorities yesterday said they remained confounded by a mystery ailment that had afflicted numerous US diplomats on the island.

More than 20 US officials posted in Havana have suffered injuries consistent with brain injury, which the US State Department has said could have been the result of a “health attack” from an unidentified secret weapon.

Holding Cuba responsible for either carrying out the attacks or failing to protect its officials, the US recalled more than half of its diplomats and expelled 15 Cuban diplomats from Washington, sparking a major diplomatic downturn.