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The virus has been identified in the pulmonary nodules of African elephants as far back as the 1970s. [8] The first recognised fatal case of EEHV in an Asian elephant was identified at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., in 1995; [22] testing on stored tissue samples was able to identify a number of earlier deaths as being due to the same virus.
"EEHV is a prevalent, challenging disease that has plagued elephants, both in human care and in the wild. Younger elephants are at the highest risk, from birth to age 8, with an 85 percent ...
In October 2022, Colossal announced that it was developing a vaccine for elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV), in partnership with the Baylor College of Medicine. [ 56 ] In May 2023, Colossal partnered with the Vertebrate Genomes Project to successfully generate the first high-quality reference genome of an African elephant .
With IEF support among others, the Ling laboratory in Houston, Texas has spent the last several years developing the tools needed to discover what parts of the EEHV virus might be useful for developing a vaccine that can induce protective immunity for Asian elephants with the possibility of adapting it for use in African elephants as well.
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The Elephant Trek will be open to visitors in the early fall. Sabu arrived in the United States in 1991. He sired two calves, one at Missouri's Dickerson Park Zoo and one at the Cincinnati Zoo ...
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Humans are used to a 40-week gestation period (give or take) but when it comes to elephants, moms-to-be need to be a lot more patient. African elephants are the largest land animal on Earth, and ...