... positive for chlamydia on the day he was captured. Finally we know what we are dealing with!
The good news - he had his final chlamydia injection treatment today. Good thing we were simply progressing as though he was positive.
More swabs were taken today, and believe me we will do the paperwork right here! If all goes well, he will come home in 2 weeks or so.
He has put on quite a bit of weight this week which is great, he is heading up to close to 3kg. Thank you so much for being behind me during this time - it's not over til he is home, but we should be entering the final leg of the journey now :)
Congratulations to you and the hospital team. It's wonderful news. It is at times like this that the internet is a wonderful thing, people all over our poor abused planet determined that a tiny animal none of us will ever see is healed.
j
I seem to have missed some posts here. Sorry to hear Krissy has been unwell. But so pleased to hear he is heading in the right direction. A lovely shot of him. Hope he's home real soon :)
Now you know what you are dealing with - sort of good bad news - and the fact that he has put on weight would seem to indicate that the treatment is working... we're all rooting for him.
Question: how would he have become infected as, presumably, he's not sexually active yet?
@vignouse excellent question. We call this a sexually transmitted disease but it is transmitted through close contact, particularly when there is clinical disease present. Another koala with a wet bottom is oozing the bacteria, as is an animal with crusted eyes.
We also suspect it can be transmitted by flying blood sucking insects and it is believed this is how it originally transferred from the introduced sheep (which are not native to Australia) to the koalas in the first place.
Now I'm very concerned for Mist who I haven't seen in over 2 weeks.
Unfortunately this is endemic here for koalas.
Fortunately if we catch it early it is very treatable, and Krissy has an extremely high chance of a full recovery :)
@kchuk His red blood cell numbers have come right back to normal, so all round it's great news. You are so right that it is great he was treated as though he had chlamydia from day one :)
j
Question: how would he have become infected as, presumably, he's not sexually active yet?
We also suspect it can be transmitted by flying blood sucking insects and it is believed this is how it originally transferred from the introduced sheep (which are not native to Australia) to the koalas in the first place.
Now I'm very concerned for Mist who I haven't seen in over 2 weeks.
Unfortunately this is endemic here for koalas.
Fortunately if we catch it early it is very treatable, and Krissy has an extremely high chance of a full recovery :)
Great pov and textures.