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Scary: cancer that’s catchy

It is a strange, strange world that we live in. Doubt me? Well read the article.

Scientists in England have gathered definitive evidence that a kind of cancer in dogs is contagious — a peculiar exception to the age-old medical wisdom that you can’t “catch” cancer.

Although no human cancer is known to spread naturally from person to person, the finding of such a disease in dogs — and emerging evidence that a different contagious cancer is spreading among marsupials in Tasmania — is a reminder, scientists said, that under the rules of evolution, DNA will try anything to perpetuate itself.

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