Mountain Gorillas in Peril - 'The Silent Killer'
source: http://blogs.discovery.com/quest/2008/07/ururabos-baby-i.html
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Ururabo's baby seemed to recover completely after his two-day episode of runny nose and soft cough. We'd been checking him daily, along with all of the mothers and infants. Magda had seen him the day before, and he'd looked normal compared to the infants of both Ruvumu and Rwandarushya, who were now coughing along with their mothers. Dufatayne had recovered and her baby had yet to show any symptoms. When I arrived to check on the group, the mothers and infants were again the priority.
We hadn't yet opened our medical bags for the Susa outbreak, but we'd come close twice. Though Poppy had improved, one of her 4-year-old twins, Byishimo, had become progressively sicker. He'd been struggling with a cough and lethargy for over a week and then stopped eating. When he began lagging behind the group, our level of concern shot up.
My initial impression of the group on this morning, Day 20, was that many gorillas had improved. Maybe we'd turned the corner on the outbreak. Then I cautioned myself, remembering the number of infants in the group and the time it takes for this disease to cycle through everyone.
Sure enough, Rwandarushya appeared with her baby. First she coughed and then her infant coughed. His eyes looked bright enough, but he seemed very quiet. Ruvumu had regained her appetite and looked much improved, but her infant had a thick nasal discharge and frequent cough. He's a bigger, older baby, however.
Then we found Ururabo, coughing with nearly every breath, sitting head down and not eating. The baby lay limply in her arms, eyes closed, mouth open, wheezing. They were clearly the sickest of the 39 gorillas today. This little one had come down with the disease six days earlier — plenty of time to develop pneumonia, sometimes called the silent killer.
*PLEASE visit my pages for more information on how you can help these gentle giants...
http://my.care2.com/julesrs007
http://julesrs007saveanimals.blogspot.com/
*ALSO:
http://blogs.discovery.com/quest/2008/07/ururabos-baby-i.html
http://www.awf.org/content/wildlife/detail/mountaingorilla (AWF Wildlife Mountain Gorilla)
http://www.gorillafund.org/ (Saving Gorillas - The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International)
Dr. Lucy's Blog - Susa Group
Ururabo's baby seemed to recover completely after his two-day episode of runny nose and soft cough. We'd been checking him daily, along with all of the mothers and infants. Magda had seen him the day before, and he'd looked normal compared to the infants of both Ruvumu and Rwandarushya, who were now coughing along with their mothers. Dufatayne had recovered and her baby had yet to show any symptoms. When I arrived to check on the group, the mothers and infants were again the priority.
We hadn't yet opened our medical bags for the Susa outbreak, but we'd come close twice. Though Poppy had improved, one of her 4-year-old twins, Byishimo, had become progressively sicker. He'd been struggling with a cough and lethargy for over a week and then stopped eating. When he began lagging behind the group, our level of concern shot up.
My initial impression of the group on this morning, Day 20, was that many gorillas had improved. Maybe we'd turned the corner on the outbreak. Then I cautioned myself, remembering the number of infants in the group and the time it takes for this disease to cycle through everyone.
Sure enough, Rwandarushya appeared with her baby. First she coughed and then her infant coughed. His eyes looked bright enough, but he seemed very quiet. Ruvumu had regained her appetite and looked much improved, but her infant had a thick nasal discharge and frequent cough. He's a bigger, older baby, however.
Then we found Ururabo, coughing with nearly every breath, sitting head down and not eating. The baby lay limply in her arms, eyes closed, mouth open, wheezing. They were clearly the sickest of the 39 gorillas today. This little one had come down with the disease six days earlier — plenty of time to develop pneumonia, sometimes called the silent killer.
*PLEASE visit my pages for more information on how you can help these gentle giants...
http://my.care2.com/julesrs007
http://julesrs007saveanimals.blogspot.com/
*ALSO:
http://blogs.discovery.com/quest/2008/07/ururabos-baby-i.html
http://www.awf.org/content/wildlife/detail/mountaingorilla (AWF Wildlife Mountain Gorilla)
http://www.gorillafund.org/ (Saving Gorillas - The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International)
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OWNED1313
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i saw the show on na geo channel the other night..they need to put a stop to the killings of these animals..or our kids and our kids kids will not have anything to look at...and they will only be able to read about them..
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