Mysore/Mysuru, Dec. 20 -- All racing activities at the Mysore Race Club Ltd (MRC) have been suspended until further orders following the detection of Glanders, a contagious and serious equine disease, in one of its horses.

Glanders is a contagious and often fatal zoonotic disease caused by Burkholderia mallei, primarily affecting horses, donkeys and mules, but also transmissible to humans and other mammals.

According to a statement issued on Dec. 19 by MRC Chairman and Senior Steward G. Venkatesh, a two-year-old horse at the Club tested positive for Glanders and succumbed to the disease on the morning of Dec. 17.

Subsequently, the Government of Karnataka, through a notification dated Dec. 19, declared a 2-km radius around the Mysore Ra...