{"id":17521,"date":"2023-11-28T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17521"},"modified":"2025-04-05T04:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T23:22:21","slug":"mycoplasma-pneumonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mycoplasma-pneumonia\/","title":{"rendered":"What is mycoplasma pneumonia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Mycoplasma Pneumonia<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s a\u00a0type of bacteria but acts more like a virus and spreads\u00a0faster from person to person.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0infiltrates\u00a0both sides of the lungs, increasing cough and breathing difficulties. It damages the lining of the respiratory system (throat, lungs, windpipe).<\/li>\n<li>Symptoms\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0not that rapidly infectious as a virus but it can affect our throat and our nasal cavities and descend to the lungs very quickly, causing pneumonia.<\/li>\n<li>Signs include the\u00a0breakup of red blood cells,\u00a0a skin rash and joint pain.<\/li>\n<li>Children may report a stuffy or runny nose, sore throat, watery eyes, wheezing, vomitting and diarrhoea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Who is at risk?\n<ul>\n<li>The bacteria can cause\u00a0pneumonia in any age group, especially in children, elderly or those with weakened lungs.<\/li>\n<li>Vulnerable groups,\u00a0who already have respiratory issues, are prone to developing this infection in a severe form.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Treatment: There are multiple antibiotics which effectively cure this infection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Bacteria?<\/h3>\n<p>These are any of a group of microscopic single-celled organisms that live in enormous numbers in almost every environment on Earth, from deep-sea vents to deep below Earth\u2019s surface to the digestive tracts of humans.Bacteria lack a membrane-bound nucleus and other internal structures and are therefore ranked among the unicellular life-forms called prokaryotes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/health-wellness\/china-mysterious-disease-outbreak-whats-mycoplasma-pneumoniae-9044572\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>China mysterious disease outbreak: What\u2019s mycoplasma pneumoniae, the bacteria that\u2019s going round with a virus?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mycoplasma pneumonia is a type of bacteria but acts more like a virus and spreads faster from person to person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17521","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\/17521","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=17521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}