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400 pills a day for elephants with TB
Cape Times
|May 22, 2025
A TEAM of doctors and vets in Pakistan has developed a novel treatment for a pair of elephants suffering from tuberculosis that involves feeding them at least 400 pills a day.
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The jumbo effort by staff at the Karachi Safari Park involves administering the tablets - the same as those used to treat TB in humans - hidden inside food ranging from apples and bananas, to Pakistani sweets.
The amount of medication is adjusted to account for the weight of the 4 000kg elephants.
But it has taken Madhubala and Malika several weeks to settle into the treatment after spitting out the first few doses they tasted of the bitter medicine, and crankily charging their keepers.
"Giving treatment for TB to elephants is always challenging. Each day we use different methods,” said Buddhika Bandara, a veterinary surgeon from Sri Lanka who flew in to oversee the treatment.
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