Dear WW: Here is another clue:

2.ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Rare Birds, Indeed | 11/13/2000
... rise in AIDS INDIA: Way of Death Parsis in Bombay rely on vultures to consume
their corpses, but now the scavengers themselves may be dying out CAMBODIA ...
http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/magazine/2000/1113/india_vulture.html