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Flaccid trunk paralysis in free-ranging elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Zimbabwe
N D Kock1, S A Goedegebuure, E P Lane
1Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, Harare.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
|July 1, 1994
Abstract:
An epizootic of flaccid trunk paralysis began in free-ranging Zimbabwean elephants (Loxodonta africana) on the southern shore of Lake Kariba in 1989. It involved a selective neuropathy of peripheral nerves supplying the trunk, with axon and myelin degeneration, muscle atrophy, compensatory hypertrophy, and fine endomyseal fibrosis, without inflammatory changes.