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Power Player Plus: Dr. Suzan Murray

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    How baby flamingo inspired new treatment

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Tell me about a couple of either emergency cases are complicated -- major cases that.

Stand out when you've -- you know a major health -- that you had to deal -- with one -- -- around well one real exciting -- From -- while ago was a flamingo a beautiful -- baby flamingo.

And it had me and -- in response to a virus pox virus it created a lesion on the tip of its bill.

And it could be become larger and larger -- the pox viruses are self limiting -- -- -- was supportive care.

And this did it and there's no known treatment for that and we are getting ready to have to euthanize little baby because it couldn't eat.

And we decided to try -- brand new broad spectrum anti Ireland say it but we gonna lose we need to learn if he got some -- different.

We tried it we injected it right into the tumor -- within the day it looked a little bit better within a week it was pretty much all gone.

Now zoos around the country used -- treatment for pox viruses and the flamingos.

So it's one of those things where you just put -- your minds together and think like what can we do what are the chances you know people can go wrong.

And let's give it our best shot.

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