MYC and Plasmodium falciparum malaria: Third, the positive relationship between the incidence of Burkitt’s lymphoma in African children and falciparum malaria has been well established, because this malaria causes a prolonged expansion of B cell in the germinal centers and therefore provides more time for DNA damage and MYC oncogene translocation that ultimately leads to Burkitts lymphoma [17], but we were unable to obtain mortality or incidence data for this tumor from WHO publications or databases.