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...s in thinking or practice which would otherwise go unnoticed by the contemporary establishment of science"....Epstein-Barr virus contributes to Burkitt's lymphoma
...etic mutations to produce disease. While EBV lives unnoticed in as many as 95 percent of all humans, it also produces cancers that kill nearly 100,000 people around the world each year. There are two ways to prevent tumor viruses from doing damage, according to Bill Sugden, PhD, professor of oncology at the M...Poor health affects business bottom line, says HHS
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