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Not in decline.
Tasmanian devil facial tumour research challenged: disease may not be declining after all
Cambridge researchers have challenged a previous study which had concluded that a facial cancer that devastated the Tasmanian devil population was on the decline.
Devil facial tumour disease, a fatal cancer spread through biting and sharing of food, emerged in the 1980s. The spread of DFTD led to the species being listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2008.
The original study, published in the journal Science in 2020, found that the rate of transmission had slowed, so that an affected animal would only infect one other animal – previously an infected devil would affect another 3.5.
The researchers in 2020 were “cautiously optimistic” that the devils had developed a natural immune response to the cancer and concluded the disease was no longer a threat to the species’ survival.
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Tasmanian Devils Face Cancer Virus Nearer To Virus Leaps To Humans
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Where da fuck did you get virus to humans nonsense...you ghost writing for the dumpf.
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Titles culture - today. Things are changing. Evolving you could say. Post-truth but not total misinformation.

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It is a weird blend of an infectious disease and a cancer. The selfish genes at the heart of the cancerous cells have hit upon an excellent Darwinian strategy...
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