{"id":14425,"date":"2023-09-08T04:17:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T22:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14425"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:00:32","slug":"varicella-zoster-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/varicella-zoster-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Varicella Zoster Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Varicella Zoster Virus<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Varicella-zoster is a herpes virus that cause<strong>s chickenpox, a common childhood illness.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is an exclusively human virus that belongs to the\u00a0<strong>\u03b1-herpesvirus family.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is present worldwide and is highly infectious.<\/li>\n<li>Primary infection of this virus leads to acute\u00a0<strong>varicella or \u201cchickenpox\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The infections can progress to the central nervous system involvement and severe complications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Key Facts about Chickenpox<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>highly contagious disease.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It can cause an itchy, blister-like rash among other symptoms.<\/li>\n<li>The rash first appears on the chest, back, and face, and then spreads over the entire body.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The virus is spread by:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Coming in contact<\/strong> with someone who has chickenpox.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breathing air from<\/strong> an infected person who sneezes or coughs.<\/li>\n<li>Coming in contact with fluids from an infected child&#8217;s eyes, nose or mouth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The incubation period of chickenpox is from 10 to 21days<\/li>\n<li>It can be serious, especially during pregnancy, in babies, adolescents, adults, and people with weakened immune systems (lowered ability to fight germs and sickness).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an Astronomical Unit?<\/h3>\n<p>An Astronomical Unit (AU) is a unit of measurement used in astronomy to describe distances within our solar system. It is defined as the average distance from the Earth to the Sun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/pune\/in-a-first-scientists-identify-variant-of-chickenpox-causing-virus-icmr-niv-study-8929749\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>In a first, scientists identify variant of chickenpox-causing virus: ICMR-NIV study<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varicella Zoster Virus is a herpes virus that causes chickenpox, a common childhood illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14425","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\/14425","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=14425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}