TAKING INFECTION BY THE HORNS: Jax the Bongo

Jax, a 3-year-old male bongo from The Virginia Zoo, recently came to #NCStateVetMed with fractured and chronically infected horns from playing too roughly in the dirt. Using the NC State University Veterinary Hospital's new equine CT machine, the 450-pound forest antelope's care team pinpointed the infection's spread and decided to amputate part of Jax's horns to prevent it from recurring. Together with The Virginia Zoo's vets, NC State specialists in exotic and ruminant medicine, anesthesia and radiology treated Jax's infection and trimmed his horns to a safe level for antelope antics.