Contagious Cancer Discovered in Catfish; Can It Spread to Humans?

It sounds like the plot of a science fiction movie: A cancer that spreads from one animal to another. But that’s exactly what researchers at the University of Vermont have discovered in Brown Bullhead Catfish living in Lake Memphremagog, which straddles the Vermont-Quebec border. The finding, published in Nature, marks the first known transmissible cancer…

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