In 1993, India’s vulture population drastically declined due to the widespread use of the painkiller diclofenac in livestock. This collapse, revealed by researchers Eyal Frank and Anant Sudarshan, led to a 4% increase in human mortality, amounting to 104,386 additional deaths yearly from 2000 to 2005, largely due to the rise in scavenger populations and associated diseases.
How a painkiller may have caused lakhs of deaths in India
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