What to Do if Your Cat Gets Fast – Moving Cancer From Microchip Tracking Devices
An Associated Press article stunned cat and other pet owners. A series of highly accredited research studies, done over the last decade, show the same microchips used to track pets are the cause of fast-growing, malignant cancers in 1% to 10% of lab animals tested. Now animal owners are faced with what to do.
Why are the microchips causing cancer?
As Dr. Katherine Albrecht, a consumer educator and privacy advocate who helped investigate and break this story, explains what scientists believe is happening is similar to a common splinter. When you get a splinter in your finger, your body does everything it can to get rid of it. The site gets red, it swells up and attempts to dislodge the foreign object.
However, when a microchip is embedded deep in the fatty tissue of your cat or other pet, its body can not push the chip out like a splinter. …
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