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The f*cking prick needs to be sat in front of a picture of his victim and stare at it 14 hrs a day. Then be given 2 hrs to wash and feel what he has brutally taken away from his victim. Then sleep 8 hrs in order to be fully aware for the next sitting the next day. For about... the rest of his useless life.
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HTLV, EBV, HPV you better believe we have! It’s just rare (thank goodness).
Those are cancers caused by viruses, and it's the viruses getting transmitted. On the other hand, clonal transmission refers to the cancer cells themselves leaving sick individual A, entering healthy individual B, and continuing to reproduce there.
Direct unassisted clonal transmission in humans seems likely but, as you noted, it hasn’t been documented to the extent that Tasmanian Devil facial tumors have.
Warts are a corner case. I’m not sure whether it’s been determined if some hosts end up increasing the fitness of the shed cells. If so, that’s quickly heading towards a globally transmitted precursor lesion.