杏吧原创s believe they have new evidence to strengthen a suspected
link between Epstein-Barr virus and Hodgkin鈥檚 disease, a cancer of the lymph
nodes. Researchers in Birmingham and Aarhus in Denmark have found a protein
called LMP, produced by the virus and thought to be involved in the cancer,
in cells from about half of a sample of 84 tumours from patients with Hodgkin鈥檚
disease.
The finding suggests that vaccination against the virus might prevent
at least some cases of Hodgkin鈥檚 disease, which attacks 1500 Britons yearly
(The Lancet, vol 337, p 320).