{"id":12924,"date":"2023-07-09T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12924"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:53:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:23:03","slug":"what-are-enteroviruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-enteroviruses\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Enteroviruses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Enteroviruses:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enteroviruses are a<strong> group of viruses that can cause various infectious illnesses <\/strong>and are responsible for annual epidemics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>There are many kinds of enteroviruses<\/strong>, including coxsackieviruses, echoviruses, polioviruses, and the hepatitis A virus.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>All enteroviruses are <strong>antigenically heterogeneous and have wide geographic distribution.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They <strong>can infect anyone<\/strong>, but are <strong>more likely to cause illnesses in people with weak immune systems, as well as infants<\/strong>, children, and teens <strong>who don&#8217;t have immunity against a virus<\/strong> yet because it\u2019s their first exposure to it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Illness is usually mild<\/strong> but has been f<strong>ound to affect neonates differently and sometimes more severely<\/strong> than older children and adults.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transmission<\/strong>: There are <strong>multiple transmission routes<\/strong>, particularly in the neonatal period, including i<strong>ntrapartum by exposure to maternal blood, secretions, and\/or stool, or postnatally from close contacts <\/strong>with infected caregivers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Most people<\/strong> with an enterovirus infection<strong> don&#8217;t get sick<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>For those who do, symptoms <strong>depend on the type of enterovirus and which part of the body it affects.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Most often a child will simply have a fever or mild cold symptoms<\/strong> such as runny nose, sneezing, coughing, or muscle aches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treatment<\/strong>:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>There is <strong>no specific treatment for enterovirus infection.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>focus is on easing symptoms<\/strong> until the infection has run its course, which usually takes only a few days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Virus?<\/h3>\n<p>A virus is an infectious microbe consisting of a segment of nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protein coat. A virus cannot replicate alone; instead, it must infect cells and use components of the host cell to make copies of itself. Often, a virus ends up killing the host cell in the process, causing damage to the host organism. Well-known examples of viruses causing human disease include AIDS, COVID-19, measles and smallpox.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news9live.com\/health\/health-conditions\/enterovirus-infections-who-warns-against-deaths-in-europe-does-india-need-to-worry-2205794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Enterovirus infections: WHO warns against deaths in Europe; does India need to worry?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enteroviruses are a group of viruses that can cause various infectious illnesses and are responsible for annual epidemics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}