Vets in Poland hope antibiotics will save brown bear cub

Veterinarians diagnose and deal with an exhausted younger male brown bear named Ada on the middle, for Rehabilitation of Protected Animals in Przemysl, Poland, on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. The bear was noticed Monday wobbling alone within the chilly, snowy forest in southeastern Poland, with wolf tracks and blood spots close by, whereas no sight of his mom. He stays in life-threating situation with neurological signs.

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A veterinarian mentioned Tuesday that a brown bear cub discovered exhausted in snowy woods in southeastern Poland has been identified with a illness that shall be handled with antibiotics.

The younger male named Ada has been identified with anaplasmosis, a harmful illness that has affected the cub’s lungs and might be behind the neurological signs just like the shaking of the top.

He shall be administered antibiotics twice a day with hopes for a full treatment, physician Radoslaw Fedaczynski mentioned in a video posted on his veterinary middle’s Fb.

Earlier Tuesday, one other veterinarian on the middle, Jakub Kotowicz, informed The Related Press it was a “good signal” that Ada had good urge for food and was consuming his meals, after he was given treatment and put in a heat hut.

“However he's in critical situation with superior neurological signs persisting,” Kotowicz, deputy head of the veterinary middle in Przemysl, mentioned earlier than the analysis.

The cub, apparently born within the spring of 2021, was noticed by a forester on Monday wobbling alone in snow close to a creek.

There have been wolf tracks close by and a few blood spots, however no signal of his mom. Native forestry authorities determined he must be caught and brought to the Heart for Rehabilitation of Protected Animals in Przemysl, spokesman for native foresters, Maciej Szpiech, mentioned.

Szpiech mentioned the purpose is to ultimately launch the cub again into nature.

In 2016, the middle saved a younger feminine bear that was later despatched to a zoo in Poznan, western Poland.

Brown bears are uncommon in Poland and are strictly protected, numbering not more than some 100 animals.