Yellow Fever
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What interest has India got in yellow fever ? The reply to this question is supplied by a paper by Dr. Patrick Manson " On the Panama Canal and the Introduction of Yellow Fever into Asia" read at a meeting of the Epidemiological Society of London held on the 25th of February. The epidemiology of yellow fever is very remarkable. It has a very limited area of habitual prevalence and likewise a limited area of epidemic excursion. No case of the disease has ever, as far as is known, occurred in any part of Asia. The eastward extensions of yellow fever have not gone beyond the West Coast of Africa and Portugal, Spain and Italy; the westward extensions have been confined to places situated on the
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