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Episode 4: The Frey Effect

The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome

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The Fray Effect and the Havana Mystery

Beatrice Bittress is the first publicly at least to connect the dots and propose a new hypothesis. It's a theory that sounds crazy at first, but trust me, it's worth hearing. When the first Gulf War ended in 1991, a bunch of returning soldiers reported a cluster of symptoms: muscle and joint pain, trouble thinking, dizziness, insomnia, nausea, headaches, exhaustion. Beatrice was asked by the Department of Defence to go to the Middle East to investigate the condition, which had become known as Gulf War Syndrome.

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