Health Supreme Update: Asian Vultures Face Extinction: Anti-Inflammatory Diclofen

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Health Supreme Update: Asian Vultures Face Extinction:

Anti-Inflammatory Diclofenac Culprit

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Health Supreme Update: Asian Vultures Face Extinction:

Anti-Inflammatory Diclofenac Culprit

 

2006.02.03 17:28:20

 

 

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Vultures in India, Pakistan, Nepal and other South Asian

countries have been decimated from being the 'most common large

bird of prey' just two decades ago, to hovering at the brink of

extinction. More than 95 % of the vulture population has

disappeared, before we took notice. The reason is an

anti-inflammatory drug, commonly used in livestock, such as

cows. The drug's residues destroy the liver of the birds that

feed on the carcasses of treated animals. The cause of the

great dying was found just over a year ago, according to a BBC

report, which fingered diclofenac, a non-steroidal

anti-inflammatory drug whose veterinary use on livestock in

South Asia...

 

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http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/02/03/asian_vultures_face_extinction_a\

ntiinflammatory_diclofenac_culprit.htm

 

 

 

 

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