Tilapia-Skin Bandages Heal Burns On Black Bears Caught In California's Thomas Fire07:01
February 12, 2018Updated Feb 12, 2018 12:50 PM
Two black bears in Southern California have been released back into the wild after they were badly burned in last year's deadly Thomas Fire. When wildlife officials found them in the Los Padres National Forest, the skin on their feet had been destroyed by third-degree burns. A team of veterinarians used an unorthodox treatment: bandages made of tilapia skin.
Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd learns more from Jamie Peyton, chief of the integrative medicine service at UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.
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