Posted by: Sandy Steinman | February 1, 2021

Sea lions are dying from a mysterious cancer

LA Times reports on Sea lions are dying from a mysterious cancer

Now, after two decades of study, an all-star team of marine mammal pathologists, virology experts, chemists and geneticists say they’ve connected two surprising culprits: Herpes and toxic chemicals, like DDT and PCBs, that poisoned the California coast decades ago.

Read story at: Sea lions are dying from a mysterious cancer. – Los Angeles Times


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