Information about Visceral Gout
Visceral gout is a disease of birds in which kidney failure causes a build-up or urates in the internal organs, leaving a chalky white coating on them. Symptoms include anorexia and emaciation.
It is a problem common to caged birds. Vultures are particularly sensitivy to poisoning by diclofenac, which leads to renal failure, visceral gout and death to them.
Vultures are now not present in large enough numbers to tidy up all the dead animals. Instead, dead animals are now likely to rot in the open and be partly eaten by rats or wild dogs or other pests, causing major concern and human health hazards including risks of rabies.
Meloxicam (another NSAID) has been found to be harmless to vultures and should prove an acceptable alternative to diclofenac. The Government of India has banned diclofenac, but it continues to be sold over a year later and is still a problem in other parts of the World.
It is a problem common to caged birds. Vultures are particularly sensitivy to poisoning by diclofenac, which leads to renal failure, visceral gout and death to them.
Threat to vultures
The collapse of the vulture population in India and Pakistan, to about a twentith of their original numbers, has been caused by diclofenac, which is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). Diclofenac is given to working and ill farm cattle to reduce pain so that they can work on the land for longer. Farmers leave dead farm animals out in the open for the vultures to tidy up, and the vultures then feed from the carcasses of the cattle that die, and are poisoned by the diclofenac contained in the flesh they eat.Vultures are now not present in large enough numbers to tidy up all the dead animals. Instead, dead animals are now likely to rot in the open and be partly eaten by rats or wild dogs or other pests, causing major concern and human health hazards including risks of rabies.
Meloxicam (another NSAID) has been found to be harmless to vultures and should prove an acceptable alternative to diclofenac. The Government of India has banned diclofenac, but it continues to be sold over a year later and is still a problem in other parts of the World.
References
- Visceral gout in caged birds
- "India's Vultures Fall Prey to a Drug in the Cattle They Feed On", New York Times, Amelia Gentleman, March 28, 2006.
- NSAID effects on vultures (BBC website)
MeSH C12.777.419.780.500 Renal failure or kidney failure is the condition in which the kidneys fail to function adequately.
Biochemically, it is typically detected by an elevated serum creatinine.
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Biochemically, it is typically detected by an elevated serum creatinine.
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Uric acid (or urate) is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen with the formula C5H4N4O3.
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Metabolic processes
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Anorexia
Classifications and external resources
ICD-10 R 63.0
ICD-9 783.0
Anorexia (deriving from the Greek "α(ν)-" (a(n)-, a prefix that denotes absence) + "όρεξη'' (orexe)
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Classifications and external resources
ICD-10 R 63.0
ICD-9 783.0
Anorexia (deriving from the Greek "α(ν)-" (a(n)-, a prefix that denotes absence) + "όρεξη'' (orexe)
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VULTURE is the name of a fictional international crime cartel in the DC Comics universe. It first appeared in House of Mystery #160 July (1966), created by Jack Miller and Joe Certa.
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Motto
اتحاد، تنظيم، يقين محکم
Ittehad, Tanzim, Yaqeen-e-Muhkam (Urdu)
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اتحاد، تنظيم، يقين محکم
Ittehad, Tanzim, Yaqeen-e-Muhkam (Urdu)
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Diclofenac (marketed as Voltaren, Voltarol, Diclon, Dicloflex Difen, Difene, Cataflam, Pennsaid, Rhumalgan, Modifenac, Abitren, Arthrotec and Zolterol
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Rabies virus
Rabies
Classification & external resources
ICD-10 A 82. -
ICD-9 071
DiseasesDB 11148
MedlinePlus 001334
eMedicine med/1374 emerg/493 ped/1974
MeSH D011818
Rabies
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Rabies
Classification & external resources
ICD-10 A 82. -
ICD-9 071
DiseasesDB 11148
MedlinePlus 001334
eMedicine med/1374 emerg/493 ped/1974
MeSH D011818
Rabies
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Meloxicam is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to relieve the symptoms of arthritis, primary dysmenorrhea, fever; and as an analgesic, especially where there is an inflammatory component. It has been developed by Boehringer-Ingelheim. It is closely related to piroxicam.
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