> Man, the Tasmanian devils just can't get a break. Neither can the guy in that Wikipedia article you linked to. He had HIV, then got a tapeworm, which gave hi

> Man, the Tasmanian devils just can't get a break. Neither can the guy in that Wikipedia article you linked to. He had HIV, then got a tapeworm, which gave him cancer. > Only one known instance of cross-species cancer transmission is known, that of a 41-year-old man in Colombia with a compromised immune system due to HIV. The man's tumor cells were shown to have originated from the dwarf tapeworm, Hymenolepis nana, making this a case of parasite-to-host cancer transmission.