{"id":22396,"date":"2024-04-12T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T06:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22396"},"modified":"2025-04-06T19:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T13:55:41","slug":"mange-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mange-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Mange Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Mange Disease<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>skin disease<\/strong> of animals caused by <strong>mite infestations<\/strong>, characterized by inflammation, itching, thickening of the skin, and hair loss.<\/li>\n<li>The most severe form of mange is caused by varieties of the mite <strong>Sarcoptes scabiei,<\/strong> which also causes human scabies.<\/li>\n<li>Some form of mange is known in all domestic animals, although many varieties of mange mites infest only one species.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transmission:<\/strong> They are transmitted between animals by <strong>direct contact<\/strong> and by objects that have been in contact with infected animals. Most forms of mange are treatable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Asiatic wild dogs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a wild canid found in the forests of central, south, and southeast Asia.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Other Names: <strong>Indian wild dog,<\/strong> whistling dog, red wolf, red dog and mountain wolf.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They are found throughout <strong>Eastern and Southeastern Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They can be seen as far north as <strong>Siberia,<\/strong> as far south as some Malaysian islands, and as far west as the Indian peninsula.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are found in three clusters across India, namely the <strong>Western and Eastern Ghats,<\/strong> the central Indian landscape and North East India. The Western and Eastern Ghats is a stronghold region for dholes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> Dholes are animals that inhabit dense jungles, steppes, mountains, scrub forests, and pine forests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List:<\/strong> Endangered<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Wildlife Protection Act 1972:<\/strong> Schedule II<\/li>\n<li><strong>CITES:<\/strong> Appendix II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Boreal forests?<\/h3>\n<p>These are defined as forests growing in high-latitude environments where freezing temperatures occur for 6 to 8 months and in which trees are capable of reaching a minimum height of 5 m and a canopy cover of 10%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Coimbatore\/mange-outbreak-reported-among-asiatic-wild-dogs-in-mudumalai\/article68053559.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Mange outbreak reported among Asiatic wild dogs in Mudumalai<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mange is a skin disease of animals caused by mite infestations, characterized by inflammation, itching, thickening of the skin, and hair loss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22396","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\/22396","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=22396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}