The disease has no vaccine to date and thus all of Army, Police and President’s bodyguard’s horses have been sampled too
Ten days ahead of the Republic day, the Capital has been announced as “controlled area” by the Delhi government, after the National Research Centre on Equines (NCRE) confirmed 32 more positive glanders samples last week. The first eight positive cases were culled and buried by the Delhi government’s Animal Husbandry Department late last month. The disease has no vaccine to date and thus all of Army, Police and President’s bodyguard’s horses have been sampled too.
The recent positive cases are from 11 areas in the Capital — Palam, RK Puram, Okhla, Goyla, Kakrola, Tihar, Wazirpur, Kanhaiya Nagar and Dasghara. Raja Garden and Tagore Garden areas were already controlled, where after the first eight cases the entire west district was announced to be “controlled area”.
“With the object of preventing, controlling and eradicating the scheduled disease that is affecting equines, Delhi Government declares Delhi, a controlled area, in respect of glanders,” stated Manisha Saxena, Divisional Commissioner in the notification.
“Further, 5-km radius of these 11 areas will be intensively monitored. In view of the presence of this scheduled disease in Delhi, the equine movement to and from Delhi is hereby restricted for three months with effect from the date of the last culling of the positive reactor equine,” stated the notice.
As per new guidelines, all individuals and organisations have been directed to get their equines tested from NRCE through Complement Fixation Test, the only certified government laboratory for Glanders testing in the country, and communicate the details of sent samples and results to the concerned department.
Soon after the news of the disease came to the fore, Divisional Commissioner Manisha Saxena announced that samples from all horses will be taken. The sampling started at various veterinary hospitals in the city on December 21 and over 2,500 samples have been collected since then.
Glanders is a life-threatening equine disease that affects both the animal and its owner. It is a scheduled disease under the Prevention and Control of Infectious and Contagious Diseases in Animals Act, 2009. Till date, it is known to have killed over 208 horses in the country.
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