PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) - Officials at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium say a young bull elephant is being treated for a non-contagious autoimmune disease that is preventing skin lesions from healing.

ELEPHANT MAN’S DISEASE. Scientists have discovered genetic signposts that will allow diagnosis of Elephant Man’s disease before symptoms appear and even before birth, the National ...

A young elephant has died at Melbourne Zoo after a short battle with an incurable disease that has left the rest of his herd 'grieving'. The nine-year-old Asian elephant, Man Jai, died in the ...

Below DailyMail.com details eight of the rarest - and strangest - diseases in the world. Elephant man syndrome ... the abdomen, the hands and feet. Sometimes the growths cause one leg to ...

According to a press release from the zoo, the calf died after a “sudden, brief battle” with a disease called elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV). Young elephants are especially high ...