Elephant Saved After Maggot Infested Injury

Elephant Saved After Maggot Infested Injury
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A VETERINARY team risk their lives to rescue an elephant injured by an infected wound crawling with maggots. Wildlife film producer, Verity White and her team were filming the darting of a giraffe with the Uganda Wildlife Authority Vet Team in Murchison Falls National Park, when they came across the limping elephant. The Uganda Conservation Foundation had recently provided a dedicated veterinary vehicle to the Uganda Wildlife Authority in Murchison Falls as part of measure to tackle the poaching problem.

Videographer / director: Verity White
Producer: Crystal Chung, Ruby Coote
Editor: Jay Sohrabi

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  1. I enjoyed the video but I thought that maggots cleaned the wound and ate only the dead and decaying tissue leaving the healthy tissue to heal. Is that true?

  2. At least the maggots would have cleaned out the necrotic tissue and staved off further infection so it's not all negative. After removing the maggots it should heal just fine.

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