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How a 6,000-Year-Old Dog Cancer Spread Around the World

  • Web Diva
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    November 4, 2023 10:24 AM PDT
    It's amazing how long bacteria, parasites and cancers that have been damaged by them thousands of years ago, can still be present in an organism in present day.

    A dog cancer from 6000 years ago, can still be found in present day animals.

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    High in the Himalayas, a heavy-coated dog trots behind the hem of a Buddhist monk’s robes. On the streets of Panama City, another dog collapses into a sliver of shade, escaping the heat of the midday sun. On their bodies a cancer grows. Their tumors each appear unique—their swollen, crumbling
    contours flush with fresh blood vessels emerging from beneath a tail here or between the legs there. But the cells dividing inside each one, continents apart, are actually the same organism. If you can call a clump of 6,000-year-old cancer cells an organism.