{"id":3971,"date":"2024-12-18T07:44:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T07:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2024-12-18T07:44:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T07:44:14","slug":"elephant-sonias-death-brings-animal-neglect-to-the-fore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=3971","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Sonia\u2019s death brings \u2018animal neglect\u2019 to the fore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Elephant Sonia, whose unexpected death at the Safari Park over a week back has shocked the authorities and animal activists alike, is found to have a severe chronic bacterial infection in the post-mortem examination, the global animal welfare organisation Four Paws (FP) stated on a social media platform on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation providing support to the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) for the past few years for elephant care stated in an Instagram post that the microbiological results from Sonia\u2019s autopsy have revealed \u201cthe presence of various bacteria\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe source of the bacteria was an advanced abscess on Sonia\u2019s foot which was just recently discovered and treated during our stay for Madhubala\u2019s relocation. The severe bacterial infection ultimately led to fatal sepsis,\u201d the organisation says.<\/p>\n<p>Sepsis is a serious condition resulting from the presence of harmful microorganisms in the blood or other tissues and the body\u2019s response to their presence, potentially leading to the malfunctioning of various organs, shock, and death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Elephant Sonia, whose unexpected death at the Safari Park over a week back has shocked the authorities and animal activists alike, is found to have a severe chronic bacterial infection in the post-mortem examination, the global animal welfare organisation Four Paws (FP) stated on a social media platform on Tuesday. The organisation providing support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3973,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/3973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}