PRO/AH/EDR> Plant poisoning, bovine – India (AS) Majuli island, lantana

Poisoning — India
Around 1000 cattle have died of toxic jaundice in Majuli over the past few days [Majuli is a large river island in the Brahmaputra River in the state of Assam, India. – CopyEd.MSP]. State veterinary officials have found the carcasses of 140 cattle in different sandbars of the river island up to Thursday [4 Aug 2016] evening, and another 600 are suspected to have been infected.
A 4-member team of scientists from North Eastern Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Guwahati, visited the