{"id":20555,"date":"2025-06-07T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20555"},"modified":"2025-06-07T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T10:04:43","slug":"diphtheria-upsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/diphtheria-upsc\/","title":{"rendered":"Diphtheria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Diphtheria Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, new research said the largest diphtheria outbreak to strike Western Europe in 70 years has been affecting vulnerable people such as migrants and the homeless since 2022.<\/p>\n<h2>About Diphtheria<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a highly\u00a0<strong>contagious bacterial infection<\/strong>\u00a0that can attack the respiratory tract and spread throughout the body.<\/li>\n<li>It is caused by strains of bacteria called\u00a0<strong>Corynebacterium diphtheriae\u00a0<\/strong>that make a toxin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Transmission of Diphtheria<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It can spread from person to person, usually through respiratory droplets, like from coughing or sneezing.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>People can also get sick from touching infected open sores or ulcers.<\/li>\n<li>It can also infect the skin, causing open sores or ulcers. However, diphtheria skin infections rarely result in severe disease.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Symptoms of Diphtheria<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Typical symptoms of the infection include a\u00a0<strong>sore throat, fever, swollen neck glands and weakness.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Within 2\u20133 from infection, the dead tissue in the respiratory tract forms a thick, grey coating that can cover tissues in the nose, tonsils and throat, making it hard to breathe and swallow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Treatments for Diphtheria<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Neutralization of unbound toxin with Diphtheria Antitoxin (DAT)<\/li>\n<li>Antibiotics to prevent further bacterial growth;<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring and supportive care to prevent and treat complications, e.g. airway obstruction, myocarditis.<\/li>\n<li>Although diphtheria can be treated with medications, in advanced stages, the bacterial infection can damage the heart, kidneys and nervous system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Diphtheria FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is diphtheria caused by?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Diphtheria is caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0How do you control diphtheria?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Widespread immunisation against diphtheria is the only effective control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/europe-suffers-its-largest-diphtheria-outbreak-in-70-years\/article69660341.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diphtheria is a highly contagious bacterial infection that can attack the respiratory tract and spread throughout the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":49504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[732,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-20555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-diphtheria","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\/20555","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=20555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}