{"id":17441,"date":"2023-11-26T06:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T00:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17441"},"modified":"2025-04-05T04:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:51:13","slug":"h9n2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/h9n2\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian influenza virus (H9N2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Avian influenza virus (H9N2)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>H9N2 is a subtype of the influenza A virus, which\u00a0causes human influenza as well as bird flu.<\/li>\n<li>This virus is found worldwide in wild birds and is\u00a0endemic in poultry in many areas.<\/li>\n<li>Poultry is considered a genetic incubator for the origin of the H9N2 novel avian influenza virus that infects humans.<\/li>\n<li>Symptoms\n<ul>\n<li>Infections ranging from\u00a0mild, flu-like symptoms or eye inflammation to severe, acute respiratory disease or death.<\/li>\n<li>The severity of the disease depends on the virus causing the infection and the characteristics of the infected individual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Prevention: Maintaining personal and hand hygiene, including washing hands with soap, before and after contact with animals is essential to avoid being infected by the virus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Classification of Influenza<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The influenza virus, which causes illness, is classified by WHO\u00a0into four types: A, B, C, and D.<\/li>\n<li>According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only the influenza\u00a0A and B viruses are known to cause epidemics.<\/li>\n<li>The C type virus usually causes mild respiratory illness, while the D type virus typically affects cattle and is not known to infect humans.<\/li>\n<li>Only the\u00a0influenza A virus is\u00a0divided into subtypes and the subtype is based on two proteins on the surface of the virus,\u00a0hemagglutinin (H) and\u00a0neuraminidase (N).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What Is WHO?<\/h3>\n<p>The World Health Organization\u00a0is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners and people to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable \u2013 so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/monitoring-respiratory-illness-outbreak-in-china-but-risks-low-for-india-govt-11700831925255.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Monitoring respiratory illness outbreak in China but risks low for India: Govt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avian influenza virus (H9N2) is a subtype of the influenza A virus, which causes human influenza as well as bird flu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17441","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\/17441","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=17441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}