Edited by Erle S. Robertson. 770 pp., illustrated. Wymondham, England, Caister Academic Press, 2005. $300. ISBN 1-904455-03-4.
On March 22, 1961, Denis Burkitt, a self-described "bush surgeon"working at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, delivered a lectureat Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London entitled "TheCommonest Children's Cancer in Tropical Africa — A HithertoUnrecognised Syndrome." In the audience, captivated, was M.Anthony Epstein, a pathologist and accomplished electron microscopist.And the rest, as they say, is history. In December 1963, biopsiesfrom Kampala arrived at Epstein's laboratory, where some ofthe tumor cells grew quickly in culture. On February 24, 1964,Epstein first saw in cultured lymphoma cells the herpesvirusthat came to bear his . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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