Puerto Rico Home of Deadly Syndrome – world’s highest incidence of a fatal type of albinism
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Mayra Nieves is used to being ostracized and called names as an albino in this Caribbean community. What she fears is not being able to breathe. Nieves is among hundreds of Puerto Ricans who have a rare type of albinism that leads to a deadly lung disease.
Sufferers such as Nieves, 30, a mother of three, have roughly five years to live once they’ve been diagnosed with the lung condition, known as pulmonary fibrosis.
The island has the world’s highest incidence of this often fatal type of albinism, which was likely brought by a colonizer centuries ago and proliferated as the isolated population intermarried.”*
*From: ap.google.com
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