PINTA IN CUBA

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Abstract
Although pinta is common in Mexico and Colombia, countries where it reaches endemic proportions, this peculiar dyschromic condition has likewise been observed for many years, but in a smaller proportion, in the tropical regions of the New World: Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Central America and the West Indies. The condition is calledboussarollein Haiti,guassarolein the Dominican Republic andpiquetein Guadaloupe. In Cuba, the largest and most populous island in the Caribbean Sea, with a high mean temperature, high humidity and heavy rainfall, all conditions which are considered to be favorable for the existence of pinta, there were no cases reported before the year 1929. I have reached this conclusion after a thorough and careful study of the Cuban medical literature and would add that I have been unable to find any description under another name of a condition which might correspond to the disease in question. The

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