{"id":27852,"date":"2024-11-09T05:55:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T00:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27852"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:22:46","slug":"equine-piroplasmosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/equine-piroplasmosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Equine Piroplasmosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Equine Piroplasmosis:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Itis a <strong>tick-borne protozoal disease <\/strong>of horses, mules, donkeys and zebra.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transmission:<\/strong> Infected <strong>animals may remain carriers<\/strong> of these blood parasites for long periods and act as sources of infection for tick vectors. These parasites are also easily spread by blood contaminated instruments.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>endemic in tropical and temperate areas<\/strong> of the world with ticks capable of carrying the disease.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The clinical signs of equine piroplasmosis are <strong>often nonspecific<\/strong>, and the disease can easily be confused with other conditions.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Piroplasmosis can occur in <strong>peracute, acute and chronic forms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The acute cases are more common, and are characterised by fever that usually exceeds 40\u00b0C, <strong>reduced appetite and malaise, elevated respiratory<\/strong> and pulse rates, congestion of mucous membranes, and faecal balls that are smaller and drier than normal.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treatment:<\/strong> There are <strong>no vaccines available.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about World Organisation for Animal Health<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>founded in 1924<\/strong> as the Office International des Epizooties (OIE), in May 2003 it adopted the common name World Organisation for Animal Health.<\/li>\n<li>It is an intergovernmental organization which focuses on transparently disseminating <strong>information on animal diseases<\/strong>, improving animal health globally and builds a safer, healthier and more sustainable world.<\/li>\n<li>It was founded as a response to a cattle plague called rinderpest, which swept across the globe, ravaging livestock and devastating livelihoods.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Members:<\/strong> 183 Member countries. <strong>India is<\/strong> one of the <strong>member <\/strong>countries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarter:<\/strong> Paris<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Protozoa?<\/h3>\n<p>Protozoa are unicellular, eukaryotic, heterotrophic organisms and they either free-living or parasites. They possess \u201ctrue,\u201d or membrane-bound, nucleus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2071817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Global Recognition for Indian Research : ICAR-NRC Equine in Hisar Haryana, Earns Prestigious WOAH Reference Laboratory Status<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equine Piroplasmosis is a tick-borne protozoal disease of horses, mules, donkeys and zebra. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27852","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\/27852","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=27852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}