CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Bangladesh has become the first country that has banned the painkiller ketoprofen. This painkiller is used widely to treat the cattle. But this painkiller is toxic to vultures. What this ban was put?

Detailed explanation-2: -Ketoprofen, a veterinary painkiller, is the second vulture toxic drug to be banned after Diclofenac in 2010. Both the drugs are equally dangerous and recent surveys have showed that the drug is present in significant amount in the market. Any vulture feeding on a cattle carcass containing Ketoprofen is bound to die.

Detailed explanation-3: -It has been banned in Erode, Coimbatore and Nilgiris where, according to a study, the vulture population is in danger. The drug is used extensively for veterinary purposes to save the vulture population since they serve a vital role in an ecosystem by eating dead animals. What is Ketoprofen drug?

Detailed explanation-4: -Despite there being no dearth of evidence that the drugs – aceclofenac, nimesulide and ketoprofen – are harmful, only one other drug is banned in India and only for veterinary use.

Detailed explanation-5: -Which is the world’s first country to ban all Vulture-Toxic Drugs known so far? Notes: Bangladesh has recently banned the painkiller ketoprofen used widely to treat the cattle. With this it became the first country to ban all the drugs known so far to be toxic to vultures.