Grey tetavax video.wmv

Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education are embarking on a mass vaccination program to protect the primates undergoing rehabilitation there from tetanus.
This video show a vet darting Grey with the vaccine. Grey was mostly relaxed and not stressed, the dart went in perfectly and suprisingly could be recovered from the cage. Grey hardly made a noise when darted - a brave baboon! Thanks to his sponsor Christine Ronaldson from the UK be protected from tetanus!
Protecting the primates from tetanus requires 3 tetavax injections over three months and then a year later a final booster injection. The injections are a simple prick often having to be administered by a dart as the primates are not handleable.

If a primate is infected with tetanus it is deadly and in over 40% of cases, the victim will suffer a painful death.

CARE is looking for people to help sponsor a primate against tetanus, if you can help please do!

Email either; care@lantic.net or conserveprimates@gmail.com, it costs around 75 GBP per individual, so please sponsor!! This covers the costs of four darts (as usually the darts cannot be recovered) & the tetavax vaccine.

PLEASE HELP CARE FIGHT AGAINST THIS DEADLY CONDITION WHICH ALL OF OUR PRIMATES ARE AT RISK FROM!!

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