Celebrity fish dies at Chicago aquarium

August 25, 2006

(AP) -- A huge Shedd Aquarium grouper that became an instant celebrity - and inspiration to cancer patients - after becoming the first fish in history to receive chemotherapy and bounce back from cancer has died.

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