Japan has supplanted the UK as Canada's second most important trading partner, although it is not nearly as important as the US, accounting for only 4% of exports and 3% of imports. Almost all imports from Japan are highly manufactured commodities, such as automobiles and electronic equipment, whereas exports to Japan are almost entirely raw and semiprocessed materials, such as lumber, metals, coal and farm products.
The first pandemic occurred in 1817 hitting India, China, Japan, parts of Southeast Asia, much of the Middle East, and Madagascar and the East African Coast opposite Zanzibar; however, it died down in 1823 in Anatolia and the Caucuses before it reached Europe.sia suffered immensely from a large outbreak from 1899-1923 and currently many developing nations in Africa, the Caribbean and Asia suffer in the seventh pandemic of cholera. This current pandemic began in South Asia in 1961, touched Africa in 1971 and then the Americas in 1991.
Cholera is an infectious disease that causes severe watery diarrhea, which can lead to dehydration and even death if untreated. It is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae.ibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, is usually found in food or water contaminated by feces from a person with the infection. Common sources include: 1  Municipal water supplies. 2  Ice made from municipal water.