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Andrea Strakova, and ,The Conversation

Should you let your dog sniff other dogs’ butts? There may be a hidden risk


Normally we don’t think of cancer as an infectious disease — but what if we told you there is contagious cancer, thousands of years old? This cancer is not, however, caused by the transmission of a virus. These are cancer cells that can be physically passed on between dogs.

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