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This site has everything you need to know, from the types of diseases to what caused them. To answer your question, yes, they do. :)
However, it is still safe to eat clams. There are certain tests that the clams must pass in order to become edible.
http://www.thefishsite.com/articles/279/introduction-to-infectious-diseases-in-hard-clams
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe answer is YES , at least with species of softshell clams in Maine and hardshell clams from Florida. This is based on an article by R.J. Beneden at Duke University Medical Center. (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1566730) About 40 years ago I was told by a retired Doctor Who lived near a shore line that clams do not get cancer. If this were true, perhaps for specific species, that would seem to need looking into by cancer researchers.
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