Tasmanian Devil facial tumour disease

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CZroe

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Any contact disease is easily avoidable... BY NOT CONTACTING A BLOODY TUMOR FACE.
Perhaps people continuing to contact bloody tumor faces is why Herpes continues to linger. :hmm:

"Bloody tumor face" is not "any contact disease." As I explained, it's not even the only contact cancer. The dog example is an STD. How many times do I have to repeat myself to stop this ignorant line of reasoning? Are you going to say that we can prevent all breast and skin cancer by not smoking just because we can prevent most lung cancer that way? That's the way you are thinking when you assume "bloody tumor face" would be a part of any human contact cancer.
 
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DigDog

Lifer
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to be honest, i'm totally not scared at the possibility something horrible happens to our race and most of us die.
because. science and stuff. or maybe just accept that it's a possibility, it applies to everything, and the fact that you didn't know about it 1 minute ago doesn't make it better or worse.
 

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
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to be honest, i'm totally not scared at the possibility something horrible happens to our race and most of us die.
because. science and stuff. or maybe just accept that it's a possibility, it applies to everything, and the fact that you didn't know about it 1 minute ago doesn't make it better or worse.

I've known about this for years. I only brought it up for a parody thread. You can justifiably worry that you might spontaneously develop cancer like most cancer victims and you could justifiably worry that anyone could develop a communicable human cancer and you could justifiably worry that such a communicable human cancer could be developed due to scientific/medical interest (growing replacement organs in a lab which would not be rejected by most patients).
 

tcsenter

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They sorta have cancer cell lines in the lab that are immortal and will graft to just about any living healthy mammalian host tissue. It's how they give human tumors to mice and shit.