Scientists Fight Contagious Face-Eating Tasmanian Devil Cancer

The wild shrieks and grunts made by Tasmanian devils as they fed on their prey terrified early English settlers in the 19th century, an experience that inspired the small carnivores' common name. Today, however, it's the devils that are being tormented—by an epidemic so horrific it seems otherworldly.
It's a parasitic cancer called Devil facial tumor disease, and since it first appeared in 1996 it has been responsible for a 70 percent decline in the Tasmanian devil population.

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