A doctoral thesis at the College of Medicine at the University of Basra discussed the phenomenon of the spread of the Epichain-Barr virus in malignant lymphomas in Basra by student Hind Alaa Abdul-Razzaq. The aim of the study was to know the relative spread of the virus and its relationship with malignant lymphomas, and the researcher concluded that there is a close relationship between the epidemic virus and lymphomas The diffuse, especially the two types (the cellular mixed branch and the metastatic lymphoma with large cells type B) and most of the infections were among males and ages under the age of fifty years.
The researcher recommended that future studies be conducted extensively to reveal the relationship of the virus to disease progression and the possibility of linking treatment of lymphomas with antivirals.