Inmigración Latinoamericana a Puerto Rico (1800-1898)

Puerto Rico

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Beyond quarantine: a history of leprosy in Puerto Rico, 1898-1930s.

From biblical times to the modern period, leprosy has been a disease associated with stigma. This mark of disgrace, physically present in the sufferers' sores and disfigured limbs, and embodied in the identity of a "leper", has cast leprosy into the shadows of society. This paper draws on primary sources, written in Spanish, to reconstruct the social history of leprosy in Puerto Rico when the U...

University of Puerto Rico

Slavery in 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...