Puerto Rico Home of Deadly Syndrome

February 1, 2008 By DANICA COTO, Associated Press Writer Puerto Rico Home of Deadly Syndrome (AP)

Puerto Ricans Rita Nieve, left, and her husband Miguel, who suffer from albinism, squint due to a harsh sunlight as they stand in their doorway near Aguadilla, in western Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007. Puerto Rico has one of the world's highest rates of Type 1 Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, a rare and fatal form of albinism which causes a deadly lung disease.(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

(AP) -- Mayra Nieve is used to being ostracized and called names as an albino in this Caribbean community. What she fears is not being able to breathe.

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