Sir Anthony Epstein, pathologist who discovered the first virus known to cause cancer – obituary

Professor Sir Anthony Epstein, who has died aged 102, was a pathologist and virologist who co-discovered a virus which causes a rare form of lymph-node cancer known as Burkitt lymphoma.

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