A strange transmissible cancer is spreading through the catfish in this lake - Peer2Peer

A strange transmissible cancer is spreading through the catfish in this lake

Jul 22, 2026

For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It involves cancer, a kind of catfish, and — possibly — clues about how tumors metastasize.(Image credit: Joshua Brown)

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/22/nx-s1-5901135/transmissible-cancer-catfish-melanoma-tumors

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