Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three researchers, including two microbiologists at the School of Public Health, have conducted a study on leukemia in cats leading them to recommend that more information be gathered on possible links between leukemia in domestic cats and incidence of the disease in humans...
...study published in the September 15 issue of Nature, the researchers stated that the percentage of cats in which leukemia virus is present is "considerably higher" than the percentage of cats showing symptoms of leukemia, a cancer of the blood...
...article says past studies on transmission of feline leukemia have regularly overlooked those cats carrying the virus but not displaying the symptoms of leukemia...
Although a virus is known to carry leukemia among cats, no virus carrying leukemia in humans has been isolated...
...study concludes, "It seems too early to rule out a link between any human disease and exposure to" feline leukemia virus...