{"id":20385,"date":"2024-02-12T12:08:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T06:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20385"},"modified":"2025-04-06T00:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:28:46","slug":"alaskapox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/alaskapox\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Alaskapox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Alaskapox<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0orthopox virus that was\u00a0first discovered in Alaska, USA,\u00a0in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0double-stranded DNA virus\u00a0belonging to the\u00a0same genus (Orthopoxvirus)\u00a0as smallpox, monkeypox, and cowpox.<\/li>\n<li>Orthopoxviruses are\u00a0zoonotic viruses that can\u00a0infect various mammals, including humans.<\/li>\n<li>Current evidence indicates that the Alaskapox virus\u00a0primarily occurs in small mammals. The virus has been most\u00a0commonly identified in red-backed voles and shrews.<\/li>\n<li>Signs and Symptoms:\n<ul>\n<li>Symptoms of Alaskapox have included one or more\u00a0skin lesions (bumps or pustules) and\u00a0other symptoms like swollen lymph nodes and\u00a0joint and\/or\u00a0muscle pain.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly all patients had mild illnesses that resolved on their own after a few weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Immunocompromised people might be at\u00a0increased risk for more severe illness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Can people with Alaskapox infect other people?\n<ul>\n<li>While\u00a0human-to-human transmission of Alaskapox has not yet been observed, some orthopoxviruses can spread by direct contact with lesions (particularly broken skin contact with lesion secretions).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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. A virus cannot replicate alone; instead, it must infect cells and use components of the host cell to make copies of itself. Often, a virus ends up killing the host cell in the process, causing damage to the host organism. Well-known examples of viruses causing human disease include AIDS, COVID-19, measles and smallpox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaskapox is an orthopox virus that was first discovered in Alaska, USA, in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20385","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\/20385","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=20385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}