Burkitt's tumour in the West Nile District Uganda, 1961-5.

Abstract

African malignant lymphoma (Burkitt's tumour) has been shown to have an irregular distribution within Africa as a whole These broad patterns have led to a number of aetiological hypotheses, the best-known one-and, at the moment, still the most plausible one-being that the tumour is induced by a mosquito-borne virus.