Sentence examples for years without a case from inspiring English sources

On 24 July 2016, Nigeria reached two years without a case of wild polio.

After two years without a case, polio returned, paralysing 228 children.

"We thought 3 years without a case was enough to certify a country polio-free.

"It is not surprising that attention would slip after 2 years without a case," says Michel Zaffran, the new director of polio eradication at World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

The beleaguered Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is finally entering the home stretch, and program leaders were just about to declare a hard-earned victory in Nigeria 3 years without a case of wild poliovirus.

After 31 years without a case of human rabies in Costa Rica, the disease reemerged.

But the country won't be certified as polio-free until it has gone three years without a new case, and there have been new cases recently in three nearby countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan and China.

Next January, after three years without a new case, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative will formally declare India polio-free.The effort to get there has been monumental.

The disease which can cause paralysis and death is highly infectious, but by January last year, thanks to a concerted vaccination programme, the country had gone three years without a single case of the virus.

India currently is observing a significant public health milestone: two full years without a new case of poliomyelitis, the paralyzing and sometimes deadly virus that has robbed so many millions of our children of productive futures.

(India has now gone 2 years without a single case of polio).