2 elephants get about 400 tablets per day each to fight tuberculosis

A team of veterinarians and doctors in Pakistan has developed a new treatment for an elephant husband with tuberculosis, which includes feeding at least 400 tablets per day.

Jumbo’s effort by employees in the Karachi Safari Park includes giving tablets – such as those used to treat tuberculosis in humans – hidden inside food that ranges from apples and bananas to Pakistani sweets

The amount of the drug is adjusted to calculate elephants 8800 pounds.

But the matter took Madhopala and Malika for several weeks to settle in treatment after they broadcast the first few doses they tasted of bitter medicine and shipped their guards.

“Giving TB treatment to elephants is a permanent challenge. Every day we use different ways,” said Bodhika Bandara, a veterinary surgeon from Sri Lanka who flew to oversee treatment.

“The animals showed some tension at first, but they gradually adapt to the procedure,” said Panda, who helped more than dozens of elephants recover from the disease in Sri Lanka.

Ali Balush, Mender, wakes early every day to shorten rice and lentils, mixed with a lot of sugar cane molasses, and cooking in dozens of balls perforated with tablets.

“I know that the pill is bitter,” said 22 -year -old as he watches the elephants that are launched under a hose to keep calm.

History of Karachi Tuberculosis in elephants

Four African elephants – were captured very young in the wilderness in Tanzania – to Karachi in 2009.

Nour Jihan died in 2023 at the age of 17, and another, Sonia, followed at the end of 2024. The autopsy showed that she contracted tuberculosis, a settler in Pakistan.

The tests conducted on Madhubala and Malika also returned, and the city council – which owns the Safari Park – has gathered a Pachyders.

Bandara said it is not uncommon for elephants to shrink on the infectious disease of humans, but Sonia – now Madabla and Malika – have not shown any symptoms.

“It was surprising to me that the elephants have tuberculosis,” said Nassim Salah El -Din, head of the infectious diseases department at the Endos Hospital and the Health Network, which was registered for employees.

“This is an interesting case for me and my students – everyone wants to know the procedure and its progress,” she told AFP.

A team of four Mulings wears masks when feeding the elephants to avoid contracting with a disease that affects more than 500,000 human beings annually.

A long time ago, the Karachi Savari Park has been criticized for the mistreatment of captive animals-including an elephant that was evacuated after a campaign by American singer Sher-but he hopes that the last two elephants will overcome the disease with a one-year treatment plan.