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Contagious Cancer Found in Dogs
Dan East writes "Scientists in England have gathered definitive evidence that a kind of cancer in dogs, known as Sticker's sarcoma, is contagious. It is spread by tumor cells getting passed from dog to dog through sex or from animals biting or licking each other. Robin Weiss and his colleagues did genetic studies on the tumor cells from 40 dogs with Sticker's sarcoma, collected from five continents, which showed that all the tumor cells are clones of each other. The parent cell probably arose in a domesticated dog of Asian origin — perhaps a husky — hundreds of years ago, and perhaps more than 1,000 years ago. A similarly transmissible cancer has recently been discovered spreading through populations of Tasmanian devils."
First Post!
you eat dogs and this is what happens! KARMA, BITCH!
You may not relize this guys. But just like aids, it is mostly spready by homosexuals. (that was not meant to be homophobic. It was a refrence to the very exact thing they said about aids)
From the all mighty MissioN of Mass.
I'm sure either GWB's economic policies or global warming are at fault.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
You ARE a hypocrite. If you're so damn concered about 'the starving children', why don't you do something about all the fat (and getting fatter) humans in the world? To me this is far more offensive than people sharing their lives with domestic animals.
Also, kill all pets, when humans are the worst offenders to the environment? Never mind that pets greatly improve a human's quality of life and have as much right to exist on this planet as a human. Clearly you have never experienced the love given to you freely and simply by a pet.
I feel sorry for you, and am disgusted by you.
I bet it's Disney movies that makes this generation such spineless losers who can't deal with the realities of life.
To hear him tell it, Stephen Colbert was only attempting to increase the truthiness of children's school reports on the family Elephantidae when he was called upon by his nation to be a hero. While merrily editing the Wikipedia entry for Slashdot to inform the tykes that the elephant population had tripled after the graduation of Rob Malda, Stephen Colbert accidentally clicked on a link to Slashdot's front page only to read the terrible news: cancer cells were transmissible through sexual intercourse.
With a faint smile and a patriotic gleam in his eye, Stephen told me of the speed with which he realized what needed to be done: the production of Stephen Colbert's Formula 401 would need to be rapidly increased to war-time levels and a blitzkrieg campaign would need to be unleashed in order to inform everyone of the dangers of having sex. "Married couples seeking to make America great through raising families are going to need a new source of seed, and they need to know it," Stephen informed me knowingly.
When asked how urgent the problem really was Stephen curtly responded, "If couples continue to engage in monogamous sexual intercourse then all of the couples in the country will die from this terrible cancer, and then who will raise their children? Every child needs a mother and father as God intended."
I was only able to spend a few more moments with Mr. Colbert before he informed me that he needed to leave to oversee an immediate increase in production, but I was able to learn that my interview would only be the tip of the iceberg of the forthcoming media campaign. "Everyone in America will hear learn about this emerging crisis and its solution when they watch my show tonight, and like the heroes they are will jump into action by handsomely paying me for my seed."
Fuck you dickhead!
Next?
There is a cancer in the White House.
Also, despite the articles claim of low genetic diversity, some devils are probably resistant. It will only help if there are enough to form a viable breeding population, and they can find each other.
Also, although this cuts the average lifespan by quite a bit, since transmission occurs as part of the mating season, it's quite likely that females are able to give birth and create a new generation before dying. For that matter, are females even affected, or is it only the males that engage in these mating related fights?
So, I don't think it's a foregone conclusion at all that this disease could "wipe out" the Tasmanian Devils. More likely, the author is engaging in the ever popular sport of "enviro-alarmism". ;-)
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
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