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Mommy Meadow and her Mahout take baby Minnie to the Elephant Hospital for a suspected herpes infection, which can be deadly for baby elephants.

This clip is from Episode 1: Caring for Elephants

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Take a trip to the world’s largest hospital devoted solely to treating elephants: the Elephant Hospital in Lampang, Northern Thailand, which cares for over 100 sick, injured or neglected animals each year. With unique access to the daily challenges faced by the vets and volunteers on site, this is a heart-warming series full of uplifting, extraordinary and unexpected stories—whether that’s treating an elephant with cancer or fitting a prosthetic leg to one that has lost a limb after standing on a land mine.

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00:00The hospital also has a team of elephant keepers called mahouts.
00:07It's like their own personal nurse. They're hooking up IV lines, feeding them, cleaning up after them.
00:12It's 24 hour care.
00:15When patients arrive from other sanctuaries, they come with their own mahout.
00:20But the staff at the hospital will help give that extra TLC.
00:30In the paediatric ward, the hospital has a new arrival.
00:37Two-year-old baby elephant, Minnie.
00:43Minnie's mahout, Marty, rushed her in from the sanctuary two hours away, when Minnie appeared to be sick.
00:50And like any good mum, Medo came too, to look after her first born calf.
00:57The vets at the hospital think Minnie has the elephant herpes virus, which is known to kill over 80% of baby elephants contracting it.
01:18Her eyes are sunken. She looks quite depressed, and so does her mum.
01:25The virus can be spread through touching, without causing adult elephants harm.
01:30But for babies, it's fatal.
01:33And when we say the herpes virus, this is not the same as in humans, where it's associated with cold sores or an STI.
01:39This is far more serious.
01:41It causes swelling of the brain, high fever, it's absolutely lethal.
01:46And it can happen very quickly.
01:50Minnie's sudden change in mood triggered alarm bells at her sanctuary.
01:54Particularly since the only other baby in Minnie's herd died from the same virus just a year ago.

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