FAUNA AND FLORA OF PUERTO RICO

Puerto Rico

of America, Children's Defense Fund, and Generations United have partnered to produce state and national GrandFacts fact sheets for grandparents and other relatives raising children. The state fact sheets include state-specific data and programs as well as information about foster care, public benefits, educational assistance and state laws. Visit www.grandfactsheets.org to find this and all Gr...

University of Puerto Rico

Slavery in Puerto Rico

Structure of the scarab beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) in forest remnants of western Puerto Rico

Martínez NJ, Franz NM, Acosta JA. 2009. Structure of the scarab beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) in forest remnants of western Puerto Rico. Entomotropica 24(1): 1-9. We studied the richness and abundance of scarab beetle species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) in two successional forest fragments located on the campus of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), western Puerto Rico....

Human Rabies - Puerto Rico, 2015.

On December 1, 2015, the Puerto Rico Department of Health (PRDH) was notified by a local hospital of a suspected human rabies case. The previous evening, a Puerto Rican man aged 54 years arrived at the emergency department with fever, difficulty swallowing, hand paresthesia, cough, and chest tightness. The next morning the patient left against medical advice but returned to the emergency depart...