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In the late 1950s and the early 1960s there was much excitement. Epidemiology was being applied to chronic diseases, very strong relationships were being found such as smoking to lung cancer. Burkitt discovered a lymphoma in Africa which clearly had an infectious basis. Hodgkin’s disease appeared to have many of the characteristics of an infectious disease.