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Bovine leukemia virus and breast cancer

By Maureen Anderson on September 21, 2015
Posted in Other animals, Other diseases

Holstein cowA new study from the University of California, Berkeley, has shown a potential link between bovine leukemia virus (BLV) and breast cancer in women (Buehring et al. 2015).

The short version is the study analyzed breast tissue from 239 women, and found evidence of BLV exposure in 59% of the samples from women…

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