Dr. J. Lindsay Oaks Jr.

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  pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/86/8608cover.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/28/2008    Last Visited: 5/26/2008  

  An international team of scientists, led by J. Lindsay Oaks of Washington State University, found that the vultures were consuming these carcasses and dying from renal failure and visceral gout caused by diclofenac poisoning.

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  seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2004466031_falcon09m.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/9/2008    Last Visited: 6/9/2008  

  The remains will be tested at the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at WSU, said J. Lindsay Oaks, a veterinarian and head of bacteriology at the lab.Meaningful preliminary results will take at least a week, she said.
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  The Pullman laboratory specializes in research of adenoviral and herpesviral infections of birds of prey, and Oaks said a variety of tests, including toxicology tests, could be administered in order to determine the cause of death.

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  IHT: Farm drug suspected of killing off vultures - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/29/2004    Last Visited: 1/30/2004  

  J. Lindsay Oaks, an assistant professor of veterinary medicine at Washington State University, who was the primary author of the report, said the devastation of vulture populations was the first clear case of major ecological damage caused by a pharmaceutical product. .There has been growing concern among scientists and environmentalists about the "vast amount of drugs that end up in the environment one way or another," he said, but no effect of this magnitude.
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  Oaks said the investigation, which began in 2000, was prompted by reports of a 95 percent drop in the number of Asian white-backed vultures (Gyps bengalensis), Indian vultures (Gyps indicus) and slender-billed vultures (Gyps tenuirostris).
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  J. Lindsay Oaks, an assistant professor of veterinary medicine at Washington State University, who was the primary author of the report, said the devastation of vulture populations was the first clear case of major ecological damage caused by a pharmaceutical product. .There has been growing concern among scientists and environmentalists about the "vast amount of drugs that end up in the environment one way or another," he said, but no effect of this magnitude.
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  Oaks said the investigation, which began in 2000, was prompted by reports of a 95 percent drop in the number of Asian white-backed vultures (Gyps bengalensis), Indian vultures (Gyps indicus) and slender-billed vultures (Gyps tenuirostris).
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  J. Lindsay Oaks, an assistant professor of veterinary medicine at Washington State University, who was the primary author of the report, said the devastation of vulture populations was the first clear case of major ecological damage caused by a pharmaceutical product. .There has been growing concern among scientists and environmentalists about the "vast amount of drugs that end up in the environment one way or another," he said, but no effect of this magnitude.
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  Oaks said the investigation, which began in 2000, was prompted by reports of a 95 percent drop in the number of Asian white-backed vultures (Gyps bengalensis), Indian vultures (Gyps indicus) and slender-billed vultures (Gyps tenuirostris).
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  J. Lindsay Oaks, an assistant professor of veterinary medicine at Washington State University, who was the primary author of the report, said the devastation of vulture populations was the first clear case of major ecological damage caused by a pharmaceutical product. .There has been growing concern among scientists and environmentalists about the "vast amount of drugs that end up in the environment one way or another," he said, but no effect of this magnitude.
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  Oaks said the investigation, which began in 2000, was prompted by reports of a 95 percent drop in the number of Asian white-backed vultures (Gyps bengalensis), Indian vultures (Gyps indicus) and slender-billed vultures (Gyps tenuirostris).

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  IWRC Magazine-Sum-Autumn 2003-News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/1/2003    Last Visited: 4/4/2004  

  Avian virologist J. Lindsay Oaks (Washington State University, Pullman) suspects the birds are being poisoned by diclofenac, a painkiller administered to cattle.It is possible that birds accumulate toxic levels of the drug after eating carcasses.Oaks and colleagues from the Peregrine Fund found that the birds died of kidney failure, and that their tissues contained diclofenac.

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  KRT Wire | 02/15/2004 | Asian vultures' demise tied to... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/15/2004    Last Visited: 2/15/2004  

  "This discovery is significant in that it is the first known cause of a pharmaceutical causing major ecological damage over a huge geographic area," said J. Lindsay Oaks, a professor in Washington State University's department of veterinary microbiology and pathology and a researcher on the team.
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  So, Oaks, with help from the Peregrine Fund, began talking with local veterinarians.Maybe the vulture's primary food was laced with something animal doctors were giving them.
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  "There really seems to be a dose-dependent reaction," Oaks said.

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  L.A. Daily News - News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/7/2004    Last Visited: 2/8/2004  

  J. Lindsay Oaks, an assistant professor of veterinary medicine at Washington State University, who was the primary author of the report, said the devastation of vulture populations was the first clear case of major ecological damage caused by a pharmaceutical product.
  
  There has been growing concern among scientists and environmentalists about the "vast amount of drugs that end up in the environment one way or another," he said, but no effect of this magnitude.
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  Oaks said the investigation, which began in 2000, was prompted by reports of a 95 percent drop in the number of Asian white-backed vultures (Gyps bengalensis), Indian vultures (Gyps indicus) and slender-billed vultures (Gyps tenuirostris).All three are listed as critically endangered by the World Conservation Union, the international environmental agency based in Switzerland.
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  Oaks, who is a diagnostician, said the investigation of the cause of vulture deaths followed a painstaking course.

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  Natural History Magazine | Samplings - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/1/2004    Last Visited: 4/6/2004  

  So J. Lindsay Oaks, a veterinarian at Washington State University in Pullman, and a team of colleagues decided to do a few hundred necropsies in Pakistan.
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  Oaks and his team say the drug is the reason not merely for isolated cases of poisoning among scavengers, but for the near disappearance of the entire G. bengalensis species from the Indian subcontinent. ("Diclofenac residues as the cause of vulture population decline in Pakistan," Nature 427:630-32, February 12, 2004)

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  REPORT ON  THE 6th  RAPTOR WORLD CONFERENCE in Budapest - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/31/2003    Last Visited: 7/18/2003  

  The American veterinarian J. Lindsay Oaks and his colleagues have shown that the cause is to be found in a kidney failure brought about by Diclofenac.

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  South Asia News - News Articles - Madison Government... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/29/2004    Last Visited: 7/20/2006  

  When Lindsay Oaks went to Pakistan in the year 2000, there were so many vultures that he got bored looking at them.Now, three years later, the raptors are nearly gone.Within a few years, they may be extinct.The culprit appears to be a drug akin to aspirin and ibuprofen.In a study that sheds light on a decade-old mystery, Oaks, a veterinary microbiologist at Washington State University in Pullman, and colleagues link the vulture deaths to the recent and widespread use of diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that has become a popular treatment for ailing livestock throughout the Indian subcontinent. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0128 040128 indiavultures.html A Drug Used for Cattle Is Said to Be Killing Vultures (NY Times - Registration required)When mysterious and precipitous plunge in the number of vultures in South Asia, which has pushed three species to the brink of extinction, is probably a result of inadvertent poisoning by a drug used widely in livestock to relieve fever and lameness, scientists reported yesterday.Studies in Pakistan showed that the drug, diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory commonly prescribed for arthritis and pain in people, caused acute kidney failure in vultures when they ate the carcasses of animals that had recently been treated with it.The findings, which followed a two-year investigation by an international team of 13 scientists, were published online by the journal Nature.Dr. J. Lindsay Oaks, an assistant professor of veterinary medicine at Washington State University who was the primary author of the report, said the devastation of vulture populations was the first clear case of major ecological damage caused by a pharmaceutical product. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/29/science/

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  Published on: 1/15/2005    Last Visited: 4/19/2006  

  "Sometimes birds are poisoned by other drugs used in cattle," said J. Lindsay Oaks of the department of veterinary microbiology and pathology at Washington State University.

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