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Eradication Plan on Glanders
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- The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying issued the revised National Action Plan on Glanders.
- The revised plan emphasizes animal health security, One Health preparedness, and protecting equine-dependent livelihoods.
- The plan will be implemented in coordination with State Governments, veterinary universities, and ICAR institutes.
- Glanders is a contagious and often fatal disease affecting horses, mules, and donkeys.
- The infected zone has been reduced from 5 kilometers to 2 kilometers.
- The surveillance area is now defined as 2 to 10 kilometers, down from 5 to 25 kilometers.
- Restrictions related to glanders now apply only up to 10 kilometers from affected sites.
- Mandatory testing of equines in endemic and high-risk areas has been introduced.
- Standard Operating Procedures are established for rapid containment, isolation, and humane handling of positive cases.
- Glanders is caused by Burkholderia mallei and is notifiable under the Prevention and Control of Infectious and Contagious Diseases in Animals Act, 2009.
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