3872 x 2559 px | 32,8 x 21,7 cm | 12,9 x 8,5 inches | 300dpi
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River Ganga Bihar India
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Vultures to Street Dogs Today with the absence of vultures and so many putrefying carcasses across India there is growing concern for human health and well being, not only pollution of air, soil and water but the rise in zoonotic diseases such as ringworm, anthrax and rabies. Indications are that there are more deaths worldwide from rabies than other infectious diseases such as Dengue Fever, Japanese Encephalitis, or Polio. Rabies is a neglected disease. It is preventable yet deaths occur – over 50 000 per annum of which more than 30 000 ‘reported’ cases occur on the Indian Sub-continent annually. India has one of the largest head of livestock in the world. Cows and buffalo are very much part of India’s landscape and for many people they play a very important role in their religious beliefs hence when an animal dies it is generally taken away to a ‘carcass dump’ and left for the elements to dispose of . Seventy to eighty vultures would feed on a carcass stripping the flesh clean to the bone in minutes.
