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- From: aph016@cch.coventry.ac.uk (ozzy)
- Subject: Re: rats
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- References: <1992Nov16.153014.29703@eskimo.com> <1992Nov17.001147.6329@news2.cis.umn.edu> <BxvoLq.JuH@world.std.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:24:31 GMT
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- In article <BxvoLq.JuH@world.std.com> marty@world.std.com (Marty M HaleEvans) writes:
- >Just a perhaps-interesting related tidbit I read once:
- >
- >Pet rats are particularly prone to cancer because so many of them are related
- >to research strains that are *bred* to get cancer easily. So, it's not you nor
- >is it coincidence that so many of your pets have succumbed to cancer.
- >
- >Too bad, really. :-( However, maybe you can feel happy that you gave these
- >animals a happier life than they would have had in the short life we provided
- >them with in the labs we destined them for.
- >
- >Marty
- >
-
- Is it Yale or Harvard (or some other high and mighty American instituion)
- that has actually bred mice in order to develop cancer within 40 days.
- I hazard a guess at the fact that this was done by some genetic tampering, and
- maybe just a little radiation overdosing :(
-
- Bb,
-
- -ozzy
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-