Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – He’s a star of the ABQ BioPark, having lived there for decades. Now, Albert the Asian elephant has a ...

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. The jumbo effort by ...

Mahout Ali Baloch feeds balls of food laced with medicine to Malika, an elephant with tuberculosis, at the Karachi Safari Park - Copyright AFP Rizwan TABASSUM Mahout ...

Zoo elephants were the source of a tuberculosis outbreak in 2013 in Multnomah County, Ore., according to a recent article in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The public health ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - A 30-year-old Asian elephant at the Oregon Zoo is being treated for tuberculosis, a zoo spokesman said. Rama the elephant tested positive on Friday. His condition poses no threat to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A new Centers for Disease Control report Friday says some zoo staff members got tuberculosis from at least one infected elephant, starting back in 2013. The zoo stood by its safety ...

The post When Elephants Get Sick, How Do Vets Treat Them? appeared first on A-Z Animals. Elephants may look powerful, yet they can be taken out by many of the same health challenges as other mammals.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – He’s a star of the ABQ BioPark, having lived there for decades.Now, Albert the Asian elephant has a new lease on life, after a lengthy treatment for tuberculosis. “I think ...