POVs 6. (C) The Ambassador explained to Taiana that an Argentine judge investigating abuse by others of diplomatic importation of vehicles had seized documents, effectively holding up the export of privately owned vehicles (POVs) belonging to American diplomats who had served in Argentina and are now posted elsewhere.
In this report, we document importation of dengue and chikungunya viruses by travelers to A. albopictus endemic areas in Israel.
The case we note here documents the importation of a US pathogen into a country in Europe, from an area where the pathogen is widespread and has been highly virulent since the late 1990s, to an area where its penetration in the past has been poor.
Historically, the Comoros Islands and Madagascar have been linked by human travel, and the importation of pathogens has already been documented, in the cholera epidemic of 1998 1999 (8 ) and in more recent outbreaks of arbovirus infection (9, 10 ).
The earliest document noting the importation of outside horses to Finland is a papal letter in 1229.
Among the specific dissents excluded from the public white paper on Iraq's weapons was the view of the State Department's intelligence branch, spelled out in the classified version of the document, that Iraq's importation of aluminum tubes could not be conclusively tied to a continuing nuclear weapons program, as other intelligence agencies asserted.
Official records document exportation (but no importation) of ruminants from Madagascar to the Comoros archipelago; subsequent exportation to the African continent is possible (L.T.R., pers. comm).
The actress pleaded guilty to one count of falsifying quarantine documents, while two charges of illegal importation of an animal were dropped.
The FDA has the authority to allow importation of competitors during shortages of important generic drugs.
He explained that he was a local agriculture official and that the document was a petition calling for a ban on the importation of genetically modified food.
