The World Bank has approved a USD 82 million loan towards the adoption of global best practices for animal health management and to prevent, detect, and respond to endemic zoonotic diseases in India.
The loan has a maturity of 11.5 years with a grace period of 4.5 years. “It will strengthen India’s One Health approach, which recognizes that people and animals are connected with their shared environment,” World Bank said on Thursday in a release.
An infection or disease that is transmissible from animals to humans under natural conditions is called zoonotic.(ANI)
