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Supersized elephants need supersized medicine—even babies. This sick baby elephant needs not 1, but 60 pills a day to help cure her illness.

This clip is from Episode 1: Caring for Elephants

About The Elephant Hospital:
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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00:00Located at the back of the main hospital is a well-stocked pharmacy but not
00:09everything here is specifically intended for elephants. Drugs for other species
00:14and even humans work just as well as long as the dose is jumbo sized. Waiting to
00:25receive her dose of medicine is two-year-old baby elephant Minnie. She has a high
00:31temperature and has been diagnosed with the elephant herpes virus a condition
00:36that's killed 60 baby elephants in Thailand in the last 12 months. To treat
00:44the virus Marty has the tricky task of giving her not one but 60 antiviral
00:49tablets daily. Are you very concerned about Minnie? Are you very worried about her?
00:56Yeah.
01:13Like any animal, like any baby animal, they don't like taking medicine but you put it in a banana because this is
01:17favorite food. You're peeling it. I love Minnie. I want her to get better so much both for Minnie's sake and for
01:30Mahoot's sake, Marty. He spends all day with her. He sleeps next to her. He feeds her.
01:36They're like a stick of Steve's. And that's how you get a medicine into an elephant.
01:47That's why you got it.
01:48.
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