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Article: Panda Cub In Guarded Condition;Newborn's Survival Surprises Officials
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- September 3, 1989
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The National Zoo's giant panda cub was in "guarded condition"
yesterday and remained in the zoo's veterinarian hospital, where
animal scientists-with an assist from Children's Hospital
pediatricians-worked round-the-clock to keep the newborn cub alive.
The tiny female, born in the Panda House Friday morning, is
suffering from a serious infection apparently contracted from the
reproductive tract of its mother, Ling-Ling. The baby panda took a
turn for the worse Friday evening, seemed to be in respiratory
distress at one point and was not expected to live through the night.
But the cub's condition stabilized early yesterday morning,
surprising and elating zoo officials who have been trying ...