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Contagious cancer likely crossed an ocean, triggering severe outbreak in Pacific Northwest clams
- June 24, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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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