{"id":14216,"date":"2023-08-21T02:04:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T20:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14216"},"modified":"2025-04-02T11:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T05:43:05","slug":"respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv\/","title":{"rendered":"Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>common respiratory virus<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>RSV is one of the most <strong>frequent causes of childhood illness.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It usually <strong>causes mild, cold-like symptoms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Premature infants<\/strong>, <strong>babies<\/strong> younger than 6 months old, <strong>people above age 65 a<\/strong>nd people who have a <strong>compromised immune system<\/strong>, chronic lung disease or congenital heart condition <strong>can get a more severe case of RSV<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>severe infection leads to pneumonia and bronchiolitis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Transmission<\/strong>: RSV spreads from person to person through\n<ul>\n<li>The air by <strong>coughing and sneezing;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Direct contact<\/strong>, such as kissing the face of a child who has RSV;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Touching an object or surface with the virus on it<\/strong>, then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes before washing your hands;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>People who have an RSV infection are <strong>usually contagious for 3 to 8 days<\/strong>. But sometimes <strong>infants and people with weakened immune<\/strong> systems can <strong>continue to spread the virus for as long as 4 weeks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms<\/strong>: The symptoms of RSV infection <strong>usually start about 4 to 6 days after infection. They include<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Runny nose<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Decrease in appetite<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cough<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sneezing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Fever<\/li>\n<li>Wheezing<\/li>\n<li>RSV can <strong>also cause more severe infections<\/strong>, especially in people at high risk. These infections <strong>include bronchiolitis, an inflammation of the small airways<\/strong> in the lung, and <strong>pneumonia, an infection of the lungs.<\/strong><\/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 a microscopic infectious agent that is incapable of independent life and can only replicate within the living cells of a host organism. Viruses are a unique category of biological entities that straddle the line between living and non-living things. They are composed of genetic material (either DNA or RNA) encased in a protein coat called a capsid. Some viruses also have an outer lipid envelope derived from the host cell membrane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/science\/health\/usfda-gives-nod-to-first-vaccine-to-protect-newborns-from-respiratory-syncytial-virus-11692671178258.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>USFDA gives nod to first vaccine to protect newborns from Respiratory Syncytial Virus \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respiratory Syncytial Virus causes mild, cold-like symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14216","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\/14216","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=14216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}