Sentence examples for last known case from inspiring English sources

Nine years passed between the last known case and this week's de facto declaration that the disease was gone, but such timelines are typical in disease eradication.

Officials said the wave of illnesses may have played itself out, since the last known case involved a person who fell ill in late April.

Still, anthrax can live in the soil for decades and could persist in Florida, even though the last known case there was 28 years ago, Dr. Koplan said.

Authorities and the UN made the landmark announcement on Tuesday after the last known case in the county - a three-month-old baby named Nubia who was born with the disease - had her recovery confirmed on 16 November.

But, unlike in West Africa, the last known case occurred around three weeks ago and the outbreak will likely soon be declared fully contained by the World Health Organisation.

Africa's last known case of polio - an 18-month-old toddler - was reported in the northern Puntland region of Somalia.

The Sahwaris also have their own police force -- they hasten to point out that serious crime is so rare that the last known murder case was decades ago.

Before those two young boys, Senegal's last known polio case was in 1998, said Dr. Barboza.

Disease in humans and/or horses has been noted on Long Island, in the lower Hudson Valley, and in central upstate New York; the last known human case in New York occurred in 1983 in Onondaga County (8 ).

According to Dr. Joseph Barboza, the Chief Doctor at Joal's local hospital, before Mamadou and another boy fell ill this year, Senegal's last known polio case was in 1998.

Our approach has allowed us to identify potential dispersal corridors between the last known rabies-positive cases close to the US Canada border and the north of the RRV monitoring area.