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Elephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses (EEHV) are herpesviruses that infect elephants. They can cause a highly fatal hemorrhagic disease when transmitted to young Asian elephants . In African elephants, related forms of these viruses, which have been identified in wild populations, are generally benign, occasionally surfacing to cause small ...
In October 2022, Colossal announced that it was developing a vaccine for elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV), in partnership with the Baylor College of Medicine. [ 52 ] In May 2023, Colossal partnered with the Vertebrate Genomes Project to successfully generate the first high-quality reference genome of an African elephant .
EEHV is the single largest cause of death for juvenile Asian elephants in North America and Europe. Furthermore, EEHV-associated deaths have been documented in wild elephants in their natural range countries in both Africa and Asia, adding yet another threat to these endangered species.
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An elephant painting A temple elephant being washed at a Hindu temple in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu Elephant from Wirth's Circus in a Sydney street parade (1938). Elephants have the largest brains of all land animals, and ever since the time of Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, [13] have been renowned for their cognitive skills, with behavioural patterns shared with humans.
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Thomas B. Hildebrandt (born 1963, Berlin, Germany) is a German veterinarian researcher dedicated to species conservation.He heads the Department of Reproduction Management at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin [1] and holds a full professorship for Wildlife Reproduction Medicine at the veterinary faculty of the Freie Universität Berlin.
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