Sentence examples for free of indigenous from inspiring English sources

In 1994 all of the Western Hemisphere was declared free of indigenous polio.

The World Health Organization declared two more nations free of indigenous polio, leaving only four -- an all-time low -- where a reservoir of the paralytic disease remains.

Global eradication of polio remains achievable [ 7], and certification of the world as free of indigenous wild poliovirus is expected to occur three years after the last case of polio has been identified [ 52].

In November 2001, the WHO European Region marked three years of being free of confirmed indigenous poliomyelitis cases.

With a few troublesome exceptions, America has been free of the kind of indigenous Islamist terrorism that has recently visited Britain.

It was soon realized in Angola that free-ranging village pigs of indigenous breeds were also affected, and appeared to play a role in the epidemiology of ASF.

Only 22 states have ratified the International Labour Organisation's convention on the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous people regarding the use of their resources, and far fewer stay true to their commitments.

When war erupted between Britain and its 13 North American colonies in 1775, a fifth (possibly as many as a third) of American colonists, as well as large numbers of indigenous peoples and free and enslaved blacks, had aligned themselves in support of a continuing transatlantic imperial and regnal connection.

The United Nations in 2007 adopted a declaration that recognizes the right of indigenous peoples to free, prior informed consent regarding projects on their territories.

H. capsulatum, the causative fungus of histoplasmosis, also has been isolated from these bats and their guano in the source caves, but neither bats nor guano have yielded the agent in extensive surveys in California, which is regarded as free of the fungus; no cases of indigenous origin have been detected (8 ).

Having facilitated the establishment of British rule in northern New Guinea (1888), Chalmers strove to form an indigenous church free of westernized culture but was killed and eaten by cannibals on an island off the south coast of Papua.