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Show NO YELLOW FEVER; IN THE CANAL ZONE Washington. Feb. 12 -From having been .i hot-bed of yellow fever a few years nzo, Panama has become so free from that disease that an Isolate d rase becomes of news interest to Its citizens. Formerly it wan taken as a matter of course that ninny cases could bo found at any time. A feature of a recent issue of the Canal Record, however, was an account of a young Englishman who had contracted yellow yel-low fever at one of the South American Amer-ican ports, pot by the Colon quarantine, quaran-tine, and was then In hospital. The next Issue of Tho Record, which has just reached Washington. Indicates Indi-cates that there has been no spread of infection and that none Is anticipated, antici-pated, the medical authorities having exercised every possible precaution. |