There are sometimes chain reactions without which they would go well. If that's how it is of the massive usage, in India, from Diclofenac, a medicament which was administered in great numbers to the stock. By eating carcasses, the vultures therefore ingested this product, knew to cause renal insufficiency. And about 95 % vultures some regions of India in less than fifteen years disappeared. Several kinds are almost put out from now on.

For lack of vultures, it is therefore the wandering dogs who proliferate. And with them the risk of a development importing rage. It is what explains an anglo-Indian team in the magazine Ecological economics. The death of million vultures would have, statistically, caused about fifty thousand human deceases, victims of rage. Statistically because alas, the researchers do not give the result of health inquiries, but establish their verdict on the basis of known likelihood. Explanation.

According to the researchers, the disappearance of the vultures let the population of wandering dogs develop in a spectacular way in the country: 5,5 millions of these additional animals, these are 38 million bites of human beings. And as, in India, likelihood to die from it is 123 deceases for one hundred thousand bites, it is therefore 47 300 persons who died. The bill of all bites would come, for India, to 34 thousand million dollars. All this for a poor small medicament distributed in the stock …

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