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health advisory Hospital Doctor Yu 2007-11-8 19:08:46

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simply because it is a disease of tropical Africa and New Guinea.

No use of making more queries. There are so many things for scientists to do !!

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mononucleosis is rare in the UK and even more rare is malaria. malaria. Burkitt's lymphoma is a type of cancer that is associated with the Epstein-Barr virus, also the cause of mononucleosis.Children affected with the disease often also had chronic malaria which is believed to have reduced resistance to the virus.

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it is just a strange occcurance that some conditions tend to happen to certain people from certain areas. for instance sickle-cell anemia usually only occurs in african-americans there are a host of others.

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There are three clinical variants of Burkitt lymphoma (BL).

1. Endemic BL - occurs in equatorial Africa and Papua New Guinea, represents the most common childhood maligancy in these regions. These are areas where Ebstein-Barr viral infections are found at a higher rate than Western Europe. Early EBV infection is strongly correlated with BL.

2. Sporadic BL - occurs worldwide, but this is the variant most common in the UK. It accounts for only 1-2% of all lymphomas, but 30-50% of all childhood lymphomas are BL. Again, early EBV infection is correlated with development of BL.

3. Immunodeficiency associated BL

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