The origin of the disease is unknown, but there is speculation that it may have been introduced throughout the world via importation of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis).
With respect to energy production, most of the islands in European Union and in the other parts of the world, depend on importation, mainly from oil and its related products.
Because of the more frequent population exchange between China and the rest of the world, the chance for importation of other CVB3 genogroups to mainland China is greatly increased.
Because a large number of fishborne parasitic zoonoses are found throughout the world (14, 15 ), the importation of live fish infected with parasites from their native waters poses a threat to humans (14, 16 ).
To ensure global protection, adequate dissemination of appropriate safety and regulatory information to developing regions of the world is critical, where importation and local production of chlorpyrifos-based products for indoor uses may be significant.
Thus, the long-term and extensive trade of mink for the fur farming industry has likely provided repeated opportunities for the transmission of different AMDV genetic groups from Ontario to the rest of the world with instances of importation and disease transmission back to Ontario.
Certainly, there has been a very different excitement attached to the Royal in the following decades, with the importation of world-class talents such as Sylvie Guillem, Tamara Rojo, Alina Cojocaru and Marianela Nuñez alongside British ballerinas such as Bussell and Sarah Wildor.
Instead of developing a burgeoning economy, backed by promises of capital investment from around the world, it turned to the importation of weaponry - through myriad underground tunnels into Egypt -- by which to strike at Israel and the continuous launching of rockets against Israeli civilians.
Responding to these importations cost the world over $20 million in 2003.
French hopes of economic hegemony, based on high world prices for copra and the importation of Vietnamese labour in the 1920s, were dashed by the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Until its discovery and importation from the New World, tobacco was unknown to western medicine.
