How ports and shipping spread cancer… to mussels. Study sheds light on the mechanisms which led to the appearance and global spread of a pathology known as MtrBTN2.
Behind this disease with a barbaric name hides a rare form of mussel cancer. Harmless to humans who consume the shellfish, it is nevertheless capable of killing its host and transmitting its cancer cells from one individual to another, as if it were a parasite. In short, a real villain. CNRS researchers claim to have identified where this astonishing disease is transmitted from.