B R Sharan Kumar

  Glanders has moved beyond a single source By Sharan Kumar   What began as a contained outbreak linked to a single stud farm has now widened, exposing serious gaps in tracing, accountability and response. Until recently, all positive cases could be traced back to one facility in Coimbatore, offering a fragile sense of control. That comfort has now vanished. Horses from another stud farm are reportedly showing symptoms, throwing the narrative into disarray and underlining how far the infection may already have travelled. With fresh positives across multiple centres, repeat samples from unexpected quarters and no clear transmission trail, Indian racing faces a hard reality: the crisis is no longer about isolated cases, but a systemic failure in containment and oversight.   With two more horses testing positive at Hyderabad, hopes of racing resuming there before the regular monsoon season in July now appear remote. Hyderabad, in fact, has recorded the highest number of gla...