President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited Puerto Rico on Monday and plan to go to Florida Wednesday to survey damage from Hurricanes Ian and Fiona.
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Biden visits Puerto Rico after Fiona, commits to recovery ‘as long as it takes’
October 4, 2022By
130,000 left Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, Census Bureau says
December 19, 2018By
An estimated 130,000 people — almost 4% of the population — left the island of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, according to data released Wednesday by the US Census Bureau.
Records suggest Puerto Rico saw a leptospirosis ‘outbreak’ after Hurricane Maria — but officials won’t call it that
July 3, 2018By
Puerto Rico’s own records list so many cases of the bacterial disease leptospirosis that officials should have declared an “epidemic” or an “outbreak” after Hurricane Maria instead of denying that one occurred, according to seven medical experts who reviewed previously unreleased data for CNN and the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI).
In Puerto Rico, lives depend on volunteer doctors and diesel generators
October 9, 2017By
OROCOVIS, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – At a community center in Orocovis, an isolated agricultural town of 23,000 in the mountains of central Puerto Rico, six oxygen-dependent patients drew breath with the help of the diesel generator powering their equipment.
Hurricane Maria makes landfall on Puerto Rico
September 20, 2017By
One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit Puerto Rico pummeled the island Wednesday as officials warned it would decimate the power company’s crumbling infrastructure and force the government to rebuild dozens of communities.
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Puerto Rico Zika cases now include 65 pregnant women, one death: CDC
May 1, 2016By
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Health officials on Friday confirmed the first U.S. death of a patient infected with the Zika virus in Puerto Rico.
