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Episode 4: The Frey Effect

The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome

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The Psychogenic Hypothesis and Havana Syndrome

Mass psychogenic illness depends upon a communication network, and that's how the contagion occurs. Yet, when we talked to the very earliest cases in Havana, their cases were closely held. Once Havana syndrome is splurged all over the global media, that's different. But as an explanation for what happened to that core first group, the academy were unconvinced. It seemed unlikely that case number two could have essentially caught it from case number one while case number one had not uttered a word about it. That basic feature of mass psychogenic illness seemed to be missing. The Psychogenic theory was the strongest yet. And once again, so we go back to square one with Beatrice

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