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A sea lion had washed ashore in severe pain. His lymph nodes riddled with tumors.

Cancer had taken over his kidneys and turned his spine to mush.

“Wildlife should not be getting cancer like this, that’s crazy!” one scientist said. “How can that be?”

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Now, after two decades of study, a team of marine mammal pathologists, virology experts, chemists and geneticists say they’ve connected two surprising culprits: Herpes and toxic chemicals, like DDT and PCBs, that poisoned the California coast decades ago.

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The ocean is clearly hurting, researchers say, and this mysterious cancer in so many sea lions carries a troubling warning for humans.

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So the more we understand how certain environmental conditions can turn a seemingly minor disease into widespread cancer in sea lions, the more we might know how to prevent similar cancers from metastasizing in humans.

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Is there a way, for example, to prevent cervical cancer — a life-threatening disease that starts with a simple infection of human papillomavirus (HPV) — from proliferating in women?

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Scientists had their suspicions about what was causing cancer. But first, they needed more data. So for more than 20 years, they cataloged 394 sea lions.

Now they have answers.

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Read the full story by @RosannaXia at latimes.com/environment/st…

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