Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. For the Marvel Comics Superhero, see Blue Ear (comics). Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a virus that causes a disease of pigs, called porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), also known as blue-ear pig disease (in Chinese, zhÅ« lÃ¡nÄr bÃ¬ng è±¬èè³ç).
Spanish: Enslaved Africans in Mexico, 1537 (PDF) Europeans' enslavement of Native Americans began with Columbus. As the governor of Hispaniola, he forced the Taino Indians to labor in the Spanish fields and mines, and he brought Taino slaves to Spain on his return journeys.
Not only were native Americans present when he reached the New World, but also Africans, Asians and Europeans, among others, had been sailing to the Americas thousands of years before Columbus ventured across the Atlantic.