A rare transmissible cancer is spreading through catfish in this lake0

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• July 22, 2026

Elizabeth Murchison, a professor at the University of Cambridge, and Peter Emerson of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife collect catfish for testing in Newport, VT. Emerson was one of the researchers who published a new article in the journal. Nature describing the first known transmissible cancer in fish. Joshua Brown/University of Vermont hide