“Burkitt’s lymphoma is a form of AIDS,” Dritz told the CDC, in her most matter-of-fact Chicago voice. “We should start counting it and let people know.” The CDC demurred that they weren’t hearing of it anywhere else. Of course, Dritz thought, no place else is as organized as we are in San Francisco. Health officials in other cities weren’t on the phone to doctors every day to tail this horrible marauder of gay men’s health. It was one of the things that made Dritz grateful for her complicated network of gay community contacts.
