A team of doctors and veterinarians in Pakistan has developed a new treatment for a pair of elephants suffering from tuberculosis, which involves feeding them at least 400 tablets a day.
Jumbo employees' efforts in Safari Karachi Park include the introduction of tablets – the same as those
The number of medicines is corrected with the weight of 8,800 pounds of elephants.
But it took Madhubal and Malik for a few weeks to get a job after spitting the first few doses they tried with a bitter medicine and charging their keepers.
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“Adding tuberculosis treatment to elephants is always difficult. We use different methods every day,” said Bandar's Buddhic, a veterinary surgeon from Sri Lanka who flew to watch the treatment.
“The animals at the beginning found some stress at the beginning, but gradually they adapted to the procedure,” said Bandar, which helped more than a dozen elephants heal from the disease in Sri Lanka.
Ali Bogolo, lantern, wakes up early every day to extinguish rice and lentils, mixed with a lot of molasses of sugar, and runs the product into dozens of balls punched.
“I know the pills are bitter,” said a 22-year-old boy, watching the elephants splashed under the hose to keep the cool.
Story of Tubercul Karachi in elephants
Four African elephants – passionate about very young in the wild in Tanzania – arrived in Karachi in 2009.
Nuar Jahan died in 2023 at the age of 17, and another, Sonia, followed at the end of 2024. As a result of exposing, she showed that she had contract with tuberculosis, which is endemic in Pakistan.
Tests conducted in Madhubal and Malica also returned positive, and the city council – owned by the Safari Park – gathered the team to take care of Pahiderm.
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Bandar said that elephants were not uncommon to become infected with a contagious disease in humans, but Sonia – and now Madhubal and Malik – did not find symptoms.
“It was strange to me that elephants had tuberculosis,” said Novah Salahuddin, the head of the infectious diseases at the Indus Hospital and the healthcare network, which was enlisted for the monitoring of employees.
“This is an interesting case for me and my students – everyone wants to know about the procedure and its progress,” she said AFP.
The team with four reflections wears face masks and scrubs when feeding elephants to avoid the conclusion of a disease infecting more than 500,000 people a year.
The Karachi Safari Park has long been criticized for the cruel animals, including elephant, evacuated after the company of the American singer Sher-Ale hopes that his last two elephants overcome the disease with a perennial treatment plan.