The government is trying to eliminate melaleuca trees and iguanas, since both species could deteriorate the ecosystem of the San Juan’s Bay estuary.

"Although considered to be easy to prevent, brain strokes are the third cause of death, the first cause of permanent incapacity and the main reason of hospitalizations between Puerto Ricans."

Puerto Rico has a per capita incidence of asthma among the highest in the world, and children are nearly 300 percent more likely to have the respiratory ailment than white non-Hispanic children in the continental United States.