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Ba Si Recovering From Serious Illness

2010-Jun-26

Giant Panda Ba Si Ba Si 264 1980-- Female Fuzhou Giant Panda Research Center Baoxing County , One of the oldest known pandas was recently taken ill, but after 10 days of treatment and medicine she is making a recovery.

1st June 2010, Ba Si Ba Si 264 1980-- Female Fuzhou Giant Panda Research Center Baoxing County had unexpected pancreatitis. Fuzhou Panda Research Centre immediately called in experts form the Fuzhou Institute. The out look did not look good, but with expert care and a good fight from Ba Si Ba Si 264 1980-- Female Fuzhou Giant Panda Research Center Baoxing County , she pulled through.

Ba Si Ba Si 264 1980-- Female Fuzhou Giant Panda Research Center Baoxing County is believed to be around 30 years of age, and was rescued back in 1984 from her native home in Sichuan Province. There was a large areas of bamboo flowering and a winter with a plunging temperature of minus 30 degrees Celsius. Luckily she was found and rescued and nursed back to health.

Then in July 2002 she was found in a coma caused by high blood pressure and the rupture of blood vessels. After a week of care she came out of a coma.