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A strange transmissible cancer is spreading through the catfish in this lake

By Ari DanielJuly 22, 2026·Source: NPR·0 views
University of Cambridge professor Elizabeth Murchison and Peter Emerson of the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department scoop up catfish for testing in Newport, VT. Emerson was one of the researchers to publish a new paper in the journal <em>Nature</em> describing the first known transmissible cancer in fish.

For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It involves cancer, a kind of catfish, and — possibly — clues about how tumors metastasize.

(Image credit: Joshua Brown)

Originally reported by NPR. Read the original article

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