Puerto Rico Home of Deadly Syndrome

Mayra Nieves is used to being ostracized and called names as an albino in this Caribbean community. What she fears is not being able to breathe. Nieves is among hundreds of Puerto Ricans who have a rare type of albinism that leads to a deadly lung disease.

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Puerto Rico Home of Deadly Syndrome

Mayra Nieves is used to being ostracized and called names as an albino in this Caribbean community.

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Pa. Hunter Bags Rare Albino Black Bear

A Westmoreland County man is having a memorable 2007 bear season. Tom Wisniowski bagged a rare albino black bear Monday on the season's opening day. The female cub weighed 47 pounds.

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- The albino deer at City Park in Iron Mountain is being watched more closely after receiving a leg injury recently.

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A court in Tanzania has found three men guilty of murdering a 14-year-old albino boy and severing his legs.

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A black mother has baffled scientists after giving birth to three albino children. Parents Rosemere Fernandes de Andrade and her partner Joao are dark-skinned Afro-Brazilians, yet three of their five children are albinos.

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A rare albino otter has been captured on camera by an amateur wildlife photographer in the north of Scotland.

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One person has been sentenced to life in prison and eight others to jail in Burundi over the murder of albinos whose remains were sold for witchcraft. Three other suspects were acquitted by the court in Ruyigi province over the the killings of at least 12 albinos.

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Tanzania is launching a nationwide exercise urging the public to identify those behind dozens of murders of people with albinism. In the past 15 months, 45 albinos have been slaughtered in Tanzania.

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The world's only pink Bottlenose dolphin which was discovered in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA, has become such an attraction that conservationists have warned tourists to leave it alone.

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Tanzania has revoked the licences of all its traditional healers in a drive to stop killings of albinos by people who reportedly use their body parts for witchcraft, local media said.

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A six-year-old albino girl in Burundi has been found dead with her head and limbs removed, in the latest killing linked to ritual medicine. More Articles

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Tanzanian albinos are living in terror following 30 murders in the east African nation by people apparently seeking their body parts for witchcraft, a campaigner said yesterday.

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[Excerpt:] - DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzanian albinos are living in terror following 30 murders in the east African nation by people apparently seeking their body parts for witchcraft, a campaigner said on Monday.

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Albinos in Burundi have been taking refuge after three of them were killed by gangs apparently seeking to sell body parts in neighbouring Tanzania.

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First there were the "Faceless People", now it seems celebrity life has been invaded by the "Albino Androids".

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In Tanzania, members of the albino community are calling for police protection after more than 20 of them were killed in a series of ritualistic murders over the last year.

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"1 in 3,000 Africans are albino. A genetic defect where there skin does not have any pigment. Most have a pinkish skin tone. In Tanzania, 19 albinos have been killed and mutilated in the past year. Their body parts are sold to witchdoctors, who use them for magical potions.

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Rare albino tadpoles have been found in a garden pond in Wales. The tadpoles have the distinctive pink eyes and off-white skin colouration associated with albinism.

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Imagine your dead body being dug up and your arms, genitals, tongue,breasts and legs being cut off and used in potions to make people rich!

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This white-breated bird sings like a robin, hops like a robin and behaves like a robin but it's missing one thing - it has no red feathers. Just four inches long, the extremely rare robin has been seen hopping around a suburban garden this winter.

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A study by John Hopkins University estimates that there is one albino for every seventeen thousand people in the world. In Aicuña, according to Julio César Ormeño, the head of the Vital Records Office, there live about three hundred people.

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Help us pick a "K" name for our newest addition to our family: A 4 month-old, baby girl, African pygmy hedgehog! The name must start with a "K", as all of our animals' names start with "K"...lol Drop by the blog and leave your suggestion or vote! Thanks in advance!

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Birds of a feather stick together. But helpers at the Weardale Animal Sanctuary in County Durham were still astonished to find these three rare white ravens huddled close in a nearby churchyard.

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At 57, Salif Keita ranks among the most important and influential singer-bandleaders ever to come out of Africa.That's no small achievement, given the incredibly rich musical culture of Mali -- his landlocked homeland of 11 million people -- and its neighbours.

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Sunscreen for Silver.

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The fact that yet another albino character comes off as the bad guy has Michael McGowan, the albino president of the National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation (NOAH), turning red with anger. Sort of.

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small WORLD Weekend Mix - The Afrobeat Edition

The Afrobeat EditionThis episode is work safe.Kick off the weekend by kicking out the jams with the small WORLD Weekend MIX! This edition of the small WORLD Weekend Mix features the following artists... Eufõrquestra - Ogun Elektrik Bones - Orgasm Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Up

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