Some birds do survive it, I won’t lie it’s a tough fight but some birds do survive and are cured and live many more years. If you think he’s got fight in him he might beat it with the right care.
I don’t like to give up on anything if they want to live, so I give them every chance I can. Sometimes though it’s out of our hands either because of the cost or because the treatment is unavailable, like Olorofim.
You can try to get your vet to share information with a state/college vet like I suggested to Maryam too and see if there’s any other new treatments I don’t know about. State, University, and college vets are more in the know with emerging veterinary news than I am.
I like to think that sometimes if you get an idea into people’s heads and it spreads around it can get things going faster, I don’t think the manufacturers would allow Olorofim to be used on animals so soon, they’ve only just started phase 2 human trials. The majority of drugs used in vet medicine are repurposed human medicine, so it has to get approval for use in humans before our animal friends can get it.
But if it gets the seed planted in the heads of university vets, they have more ability to seek funding to begin trials for avians and companion animals, so it might not help now, but I like to think it could eventually help others sooner than it otherwise would have if there’s enough interest in testing its effectiveness across species simultaneously.
