{"id":19862,"date":"2024-01-29T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T05:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19862"},"modified":"2025-04-05T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:54:25","slug":"western-equine-encephalitis-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/western-equine-encephalitis-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Equine Encephalitis Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Western Equine Encephalitis Virus:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>mosquito-borne infection<\/strong> caused by the <strong>Western Equine Encephalitis Virus<\/strong> (WEEV), which belongs to the Togaviridae family of viruses.<\/li>\n<li>The virus has an approximately 11.5 kilobases long single-stranded RNA genome.<\/li>\n<li>It is a recombinant of the <strong>eastern equine encephalitis<\/strong> virus (EEEV) and a <strong>Sindbis-like virus<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Passerine birds<\/strong> are thought to be the reservoir and equine species as intermediate hosts.<\/li>\n<li>The primary mode of transmission of the infection to humans is through mosquitoes which act as vectors for the virus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o While most of the infections are asymptomatic, the infection may lead to severe consequences in rare cases.<\/p>\n<p>o An estimated 4-5% of cases may manifest as infection\/inflammation of the brain, resulting in <strong>neurological symptoms and sequelae of disease<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 <strong>Treatment:<\/strong> With no specific antiviral treatment, symptomatic care is crucial, especially for neurologic symptoms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What is a virus?<\/h3>\n<p>A virus is an infectious microbe consisting of a segment of nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protein coat.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/outbreak-of-western-equine-encephalitis-virus-in-argentina\/article67780160.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Outbreak of Western Equine Encephalitis Virus in Argentina<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Equine Encephalitis Virus is a mosquito-borne infection caused by the Western Equine Encephalitis Virus (WEEV), which belongs to the Togaviridae family of viruses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19862","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\/19862","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=19862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}