{"id":15075,"date":"2023-09-21T02:33:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T21:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15075"},"modified":"2025-04-03T08:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T02:55:13","slug":"feline-panleukopenia-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/feline-panleukopenia-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Feline Panleukopenia virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Feline Panleukopenia virus:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a highly\u00a0<strong>contagious viral disease<\/strong> of cats.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as\u00a0<strong>Feline Distemper<\/strong> which is a life-threatening infectious disease.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It infects and kills the rapidly growing and dividing cells in the body, including cells in the bone marrow, intestines, and skin, and in a developing fetus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Once infected by Feline panleukopenia virus, the\u00a0<strong>intestine of the animal gets<\/strong> completely affected.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<strong>develop severe diarrhea<\/strong>, vomiting and dehydration which ultimately leads to death.<\/li>\n<li>It spreads faster and the infected\u00a0<strong>animal dies within four to five days.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treatment\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>There is\u00a0<strong>no specific treatment<\/strong> for feline panleukopenia.<\/li>\n<li>Dehydration is treated with\u00a0<strong>aggressive intravenous fluid therapy<\/strong> while clinical signs of vomiting and diarrhea are treated with prescription medications.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Antibiotic therapy<\/strong> is often instituted to help control any secondary bacterial infections due to low white blood cell counts.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a virus?<\/h3>\n<p>A virus is a microscopic infectious agent that is much smaller than a cell and is not considered a living organism. Viruses can infect various forms of life, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria (known as bacteriophages), and archaea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/bangalore\/7-leopard-cubs-bengalurus-bannerghatta-zoo-die-feline-virus-attack-8948760\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In 1 month, 7 leopard cubs at Bengaluru\u2019s Bannerghatta zoo die of feline virus attack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feline Panleukopenia virus is also known as Feline Distemper which is a life-threatening infectious disease. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15075","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\/15075","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=15075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}