RECENT research suggests that more than a third of India's community pharmacies are contributing to the probable extinction of three South Asian species of vulture. They are doing so by continuing to sell the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac for use in cattle, even though such sales were banned five years ago. The drug is highly toxic to vultures of the Gyps genus, which ingest it when feeding on bovine carcasses.
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