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India takes major step to save the vulture

Multi-dose vials of painkiller diclofenac used for human patients, has been banned in veterinary treatments so that vultures could be saved. In a major step, the Union Ministry of Health has banned multi-dose vials of human formulations of diclofenac, a painkilling drug that is responsible for the death of vultures in large numbers, reducing them to a critically endangered species in India and other Asian countries. The ban has come […]