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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