ISRAEL: SHIRAZ THE SEVEN MONTH-OLD LION CUB RECEIVES A CAT SCAN AT HOSPITAL NEAR TEL-AVIV

Record ID: 399030

  • Title: ISRAEL: SHIRAZ THE SEVEN MONTH-OLD LION CUB RECEIVES A CAT SCAN AT HOSPITAL NEAR TEL-AVIV
  • Date: 3rd February 1999
  • Summary: TEL HASHOMER HOSPITAL, NEAR TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL (FEBRUARY 3, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. LV EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL 0.05 2. CU LION CUB CARRIED IN A CAGE INTO HOSPITAL 0.13 3. VARIOUS MEDICAL STAFF CARRYING THE CUB INTO THE CATSCANNER /MEDICAL STAFF WITH COMPUTERS (5 SHOTS) 0.48 4. CU/SV LION CUB INSIDE THE SCANNER (2 SHOTS) 1.25 5. SV DOCTO
  • Embargoed: 18th February 1999 12:00
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  • Location: TEL HASHOMER HOSPITAL, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA62WRO0ZSM0XPW9NSQ0ILHXKN5
  • Story Text: Question - how do you treat a lion with suspected brain damage.

    Answer.Send it to hospital for a CATscan.

    Shiraz, a seven-month-old lion cub from a zoo near Tel Aviv,
    was resting on Wednesday (February 3) after a CATscan x-ray its brain.

    "We found that it wasn't brain damage but damage to the bones around
    the brain," Dr Meir Feibel of Tel Hashomer hospital told Reuters.

    He said Shiraz would now have to either be treated with
    medicine or, if the lion cub failed to respond, would undergo surgery.

    Dr Feibel said the original reason for scanning Shiraz was to provide
    a comparison of the cubs brain with that of the animal's younger
    brother, Simantov, who had started to stumble as he walked around
    his zoo pen, and and seemed have become dis-orientated.


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