{"id":28091,"date":"2024-11-19T05:36:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28091"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:50:52","slug":"thai-sacbrood-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/thai-sacbrood-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai sacbrood Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Thai sacbrood Virus:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Thai sacbrood virus is one of the greatest threats facing the <strong>Asiatic honey bee<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The particular viral strain that attacks western honey bees is less virulent.<\/li>\n<li>The disease caused by the virus\u2019s infection <strong>kills the bees\u2019 larvae<\/strong>. The particular viral strain that attacks western honey bees is less virulent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Geographical spread:<\/strong> In 1991-1992, a Thai sacbrood virus outbreak devastated around 90% of Asiatic honey bee colonies in <strong>South India<\/strong> and reemerged in 2021 in Telangana. The virus has been reported from other parts of the world, including <strong>China and Vietnam.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Indian Bees<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India hosts more than 700 bee species, including four indigenous honey bees: <strong>Asiatic honey bee <\/strong>(Apis cerana indica), <strong>giant rock bee<\/strong> (Apis dorsata), <strong>dwarf honey bee<\/strong> (Apis florea), and the <strong>stingless bee<\/strong> (sp. Trigona). Western honey bees were introduced in India in 1983 to increase the country\u2019s honey yield.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Do you know?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pathogen spillover:<\/strong> An event in which a species-specific pathogen establishes infection in a novel susceptible host. <strong>E.g:<\/strong> transmission of <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/nipah-virus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nipah virus<\/strong><\/a> from bats into pigs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pathogen Spillback:<\/strong> A specific instance of spillover that occurs when a pathogen is transmitted from a novel host back into an origin host. <strong>E.g.:<\/strong> Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans into wild-caught bats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Pollination?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the act of transferring pollen grains from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma. The goal of every living organism, including plants, is to create offspring for the next generation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_international\/issues\/107931\/OPS\/G0BDILPT8.1+GMTDJN8P0.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New infectious diseases among bees threaten world\u2019s economies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai sacbrood Virus is one of the greatest threats facing the Asiatic honey bee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28091","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\/28091","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=28091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}