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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