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Vermont researchers discover transmissible cancer in catfish—first ever in a freshwater animal

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Mysterious black skin lesions afflicting catfish in Lake Memphremagog and other New England and Canadian lakes are caused by a transmissible cancer—the first ever identified in a freshwater fish species, according to a study led by the University of Vermont and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. 

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