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Cancer won’t drive Tassie Devils extinct – 7NEWS.com.au
A new study has found the rate at which Tasmanian Devils are contracting a transmissible, fatal facial cancer is reducing.
As Australia makes leaps towards defeating coronavirus on our shores, one of the nation’s endangered icons looks to be overcoming its own epidemic.
At the height of the unusual, transmissible cancer decimating Tasmanian Devil populations, they were expected to become extinct.
Although 80 per cent of the wild population has been wiped out, researchers have found the rate at which the disease is spreading has drastically reduced, bringing them back from the edge of extinction.
That indicates the devils…
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