Vultures At Risk From Deadly Traces Of Pain Killer

... Asian vultures are at risk of lethal kidney failure if they feed from carcasses of a cow that died up to four days after treatment with the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac. Writing in the Journal of Applied Ecology, Dr Rhys Green of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and University of Cambridge says "Diclofenac poisoning is the main, and possibly the only, cause of the vulture decline". ...