Tasmanian Devil are flattening the curve and likely to survive cancer fight – Sydney Morning Herald

There is also evidence of devils surviving the disease which was thought to be universally fatal at its height, with some contracting the cancer and later recovering.
Should the reproduction number remain below one for long enough the disease may eventually burn itself out or come to exist endemically in the devil population says one of the papers authors, Professor Hamish McCallum of Griffith University.
The population of the animal has crashed from an estimate of over 60,000 when it was first…

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