Mysterious Vulture Deaths
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: August 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Length: 01:30
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It seemed like the right thing to do at the time. In India, tens of thousands of cows die each year. In the late 1980s, India’s largely Hindu populace began administering the drug diclofenac to ease their dying pain. Then, mysteriously, vultures began dying in droves: The population plummeted from up to 40 million twelve years ago to the low thousands today. At first, scientists thought a virus was killing the birds...
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It seemed like the right thing to do at the time. In India, tens of thousands of cows die each year. In the late 1980s, India’s largely Hindu populace began administering the drug diclofenac to ease their dying pain. Then, mysteriously, vultures began dying in droves: The population plummeted from up to 40 million twelve years ago to the low thousands today. At first, scientists thought a virus was killing the birds...
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