{"id":7183,"date":"2022-11-02T03:45:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T22:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:13:04","slug":"aceclofenac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/aceclofenac\/","title":{"rendered":"Aceclofenac"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Aceclofenac:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Aceclofenac is the prodrug of the non\u2010steroidal anti\u2010inflammatory drug (NSAID) diclofenac.<\/li>\n<li>Aceclofenac in water buffaloes poses the same threat to vultures as it is a pro-drug of diclofenac.<\/li>\n<li>Aceclofenac turns into diclofenac soon after it enters the livestock.<\/li>\n<li>Vulture Action Plan 2020-2025 also mentions the aceclofenac as \u2018toxic\u2019, along with other drugs like nimesulide and ketoprofen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Diclofenac:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Diclofenac is an anti-inflammatory drug.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0banned for veterinary use by the Government of India\u00a0in 2006.<\/li>\n<li>It was found to be the main cause of a dramatic decline (99 per cent) of the vulture population across Asia.<\/li>\n<li>The drug caused accidental poisoning in raptors after they fed on carcasses of cattle injected with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramias.com\/current-affairs\/2022\/11\/Ban%20use%20of%20aceclofenac%20on%20cattle%20to%20save%20vultures,%20demands%20vet%20researchers%20https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/ban-use-of-aceclofenac-on-cattle-to-save-vultures-demands-vet-researchers-85701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Down to Earth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aceclofenac used for the relief of pain and inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis ankylosing spondylitis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}