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Contagious cancer likely crossed an ocean, triggering severe outbreak in Pacific Northwest clams

Researchers have identified a severe outbreak of a rare contagious cancer in soft-shell clams in Washington state's Puget Sound and found evidence that the disease was recently introduced to the Pacific Northwest from Atlantic Coast populations.

Contagious cancer likely crossed an ocean, triggering severe outbreak in Pacific Northwest clams
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Researchers have identified a severe outbreak of a rare contagious cancer in soft-shell clams in Washington state's Puget Sound and found evidence that the disease was recently introduced to the Pacific Northwest from Atlantic Coast populations.

Originally published at Phys.org

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