{"id":28408,"date":"2025-01-27T09:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T04:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28408"},"modified":"2025-04-08T19:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:34:56","slug":"chronic-pulmonary-aspergillosis-cpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chronic-pulmonary-aspergillosis-cpa\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CPA)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, a new research paper has identified a life-threatening fungal infection called chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA), mostly in the damaged lungs of tuberculosis survivors among Assam\u2019s tea plantation workers.<\/p>\n<h2>About Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an infection caused by <strong>Aspergillus fumigatus<\/strong>, a fungus that strikes individuals with immunodeficiency.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>chronic lung disease<\/strong> that occurs commonly in pre-existing lung cavities.<\/li>\n<li>It mostly <strong>occurs in post-TB or active TB patients<\/strong> and shares similar clinical features with tuberculosis.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>not contagious, <\/strong>meaning it cannot be passed from person to person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Symptoms of Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It doesn\u2019t always cause symptoms in the early stages. When symptoms do occur, they can vary from person to person. The most common symptom of CPA is coughing up blood.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Other symptoms can include:<\/strong> unintentional weight loss, fatigue, shortness of breath, wheezing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Treatment of Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Antifungal medications<\/strong> are the most common treatment for CPA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Surgery <\/strong>is an option to remove the fungal mass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Aspergillus\u00a0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Aspergillus species are <strong>filamentous fungi<\/strong> that are commonly found in soil, decaying vegetation, and seeds and grains, where they thrive as saprophytes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Most Aspergillus species are found in a wide variety of <strong>environments and substrates on the Earth throughout the year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Only a few well-known species are considered as important opportunistic pathogens in humans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1: <\/strong>What causes chronic pulmonary aspergillosis?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>It is caused by a fungal infection<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>What are the symptoms of pulmonary aspergillosis?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>Frequent and bloody coughing as well as shortness of breath.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3: <\/strong>What are Fungi?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>These are eukaryotic organisms that include moulds, yeasts, and related organisms like mushrooms within the kingdom Fungi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q4: <\/strong>What is Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) disease?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> It is an infection that often occurs in immunocompromised patients and has a high mortality rate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/assam\/assam-tea-workers-prone-to-post-tb-fungal-disease-study\/article69143488.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It an infection caused by Aspergillus fumigatus, a fungus that strikes individuals with immunodeficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28408","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\/28408","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=28408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}