{"id":164,"date":"2024-12-25T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T12:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=164"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T10:42:52","slug":"dinga-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dinga-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinga Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Dinga Disease:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is locally called &#8216;Dinga Dinga&#8217;, meaning <strong>&#8216;shaking like dancing&#8217;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It predominantly <strong>impacts women and girls<\/strong>, is characterized by fever and excessive body shaking.<\/li>\n<li>It is marked by fever and <strong>uncontrollable body shaking<\/strong>, severely impairing mobility and severe cases, people are also experiencing paralysis.<\/li>\n<li>The cause of Dinga Dinga remains a mystery. Despite efforts to identify the virus responsible, health experts have yet to pinpoint its source.<\/li>\n<li>The symptoms of Dinga Dinga are as unusual as they are distressing:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Uncontrollable body shaking:<\/strong> The most striking feature of the illness is violent, involuntary movements that resemble dancing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fever and extreme weakness:<\/strong> Patients often report high fever and overwhelming fatigue.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paralysis-like immobility:<\/strong> Some experience a sensation of paralysis, with even basic movements like walking becoming impossible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treatment: <\/strong>The illness is currently being <strong>treated with antibiotics.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are antibiotics?<\/h3>\n<p>Antibiotics are medicines that fight bacterial infections in people and animals. They work by killing the bacteria or by making it hard for the bacteria to grow and multiply.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/life\/dinga-dinga-virus-outbreak-know-all-about-mysterious-condition-that-has-left-women-and-girls-shaking-in-uganda-3696343\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a mysterious illness locally referred to as \u201cDinga Dinga\u201d, has wreaked havoc in Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-dinga-disease","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}