The outbreak in Brazil also carried a high risk of exported cases, with around 10 million travellers departing each year for international destinations.
High-income countries should therefore focus less on the risk of exporting the problem of misuse to low-income countries and instead emphasize facilitating the legal international supply of these medicines and, crucially, strengthening health systems to distribute them effectively and responsibly.
Indeed, as the world debates the best way to recover the missing girls, another menace is resurfacing: the World Health Organization recently declared the spread of polio an international public-health emergency, with several African countries now posing an ongoing risk of exporting the disease.
With the advent of SARS transmission in Toronto, Health Canada implemented similar HANs in a different color (cherry) to mitigate the risk of exporting SARS cases.
As a consequence, the risk of exporting viruliferous thrips-infested plant material has become greater and concomitantly increases the threat of American tospoviruses to crops elsewhere in the world, e.g. of CSNV to Europe [ 23, 33], especially considering that some of their vectors, like F. occidentalis, are already present.
If found to be true, this suggests that sustained DOTS intervention in affected areas over several years could by reducing transmission in those areas contributed significantly in minimizing the risk of exporting M. tuberculosis infection into Kuwait and perhaps to other countries in the region.
But, there has never been a better time for these firms to shift their focus from the risks of export to the potential rewards it can bring.
Publishing a manifesto for British exports, HSBC said businesses required assistance to make connections with other parts of the world, support with the initial costs and risks of exporting, and the confidence that came from clear information about international opportunities.
That a large U.S. exporter took the risk of illegally exporting them suggested to Shivji that there is a valuable market even for small fins from great white sharks.
A £35m Rembrandt, which has been in Britain for 250 years but was at risk of being exported, might stay in this country as it is likely the export licence application will be withdrawn, Sotheby's has said.
