As elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV) has been a cause of death for many young Asian elephants both in captivity and in the wild, Linda & Janet attended the Houston EEHV Workshop held March 26-28 to learn more about the situation. It was an overwhelmingly instructive and inspiring experience to be with many people from around the world trying to contain, treat, and develop a vaccine against EEHV, including researchers, zookeepers and elephant managers, geneticists, veterinarians and stem cell producers.
EEHV is a very tough and heartbreaking disease and to see that so many people and institutions are committed to this cause gave us a sense of hope because as we heard repetitively at the conference, “Who doesn’t want to Save a baby elephant?”
