Six-year-old Jaycco Paris has only tossed the ball toward the basket for a few minutes when he plunks himself down on a bench to rest before he starts wheezing.
Jaycco is one of tens of thousands of children with asthma in Puerto Rico, which has one of the highest asthma prevalence rates in the world. His mother, Rosa Agosto, rarely lets him out of her sight and has banned him from his favorite sport, baseball, fearing the dust and exertion will send him to the emergency room.
"I'm thinking about his asthma all day," said Agosto, who regularly freezes the few stuffed animals she let her son keep to kill any mites, a common asthma trigger. "That's why I rarely let him out of the house."
Puerto Rico is a U.S. Caribbean territory where children are nearly 300 percent more likely to have the respiratory ailment than white non-Hispanic children in the continental United States. And this year, Puerto Rico has seen a jump in asthma cases, which health officials suspect might be linked to the heavy rains that have unleashed millions of spores.
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Jaycco is one of tens of thousands of children with asthma in Puerto Rico, which has one of the highest asthma prevalence rates in the world. His mother, Rosa Agosto, rarely lets him out of her sight and has banned him from his favorite sport, baseball, fearing the dust and exertion will send him to the emergency room.
"I'm thinking about his asthma all day," said Agosto, who regularly freezes the few stuffed animals she let her son keep to kill any mites, a common asthma trigger. "That's why I rarely let him out of the house."
Puerto Rico is a U.S. Caribbean territory where children are nearly 300 percent more likely to have the respiratory ailment than white non-Hispanic children in the continental United States. And this year, Puerto Rico has seen a jump in asthma cases, which health officials suspect might be linked to the heavy rains that have unleashed millions of spores.
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