{"id":27101,"date":"2024-10-07T04:36:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27101"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:59:00","slug":"respiratory-synctial-virus-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/respiratory-synctial-virus-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Respiratory Synctial Virus Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Respiratory Synctial Virus Infection:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>RSV, which typically causes <strong>cold-like symptoms<\/strong>, is a leading cause of severe infection and death in babies and older adults.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong> They include, Runny nose, Decrease in appetite and Cough etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transmission:<\/strong> RSV spreads from person to person through\n<ul>\n<li>The air by <strong>coughing and sneezing<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>Direct contact, such as kissing the face of a child who has RSV;<\/li>\n<li>Touching an object or surface with the virus on it, then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes before washing your hands;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Premature infants, babies <strong>younger than 6 months<\/strong> old, people above age 65 and people who have a compromised immune system, chronic lung disease or congenital heart condition can get a more severe case of RSV.<\/li>\n<li>People who have an RSV infection are usually <strong>contagious for 3 to 8 days<\/strong>. But sometimes infants and people with weakened immune systems can continue to spread the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/virus\/\" target=\"_blank\">virus<\/a> for as long as 4 weeks.<\/li>\n<li>A severe infection leads to <strong>pneumonia and bronchiolitis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Bronchiolitis?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a common lung infection in young children and infants. It causes swelling and irritation and a buildup of mucus in the small airways of the lung. These small airways are called bronchioles. Bronchiolitis is almost always caused by a virus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/who-recommends-maternal-vaccine-and-antibody-shot-to-prevent-rsv-in-infants\/article68709342.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WHO recommends maternal vaccine and antibody shot to prevent RSV in infants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respiratory Synctial Virus Infection which typically causes cold-like symptoms, is a leading cause of severe infection and death in babies and older adults. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27101","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\/27101","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=27101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}