{"id":29066,"date":"2024-12-29T02:37:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T21:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29066"},"modified":"2025-04-09T00:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:45:15","slug":"international-day-of-epidemic-preparedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/international-day-of-epidemic-preparedness\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Epidemic Preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About International Day of Epidemic Preparedness:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is annually observed on <strong>December 27<\/strong> to advocate the importance of prevention of, preparedness for, and partnership against epidemics.<\/li>\n<li>It highlights the urgent need to invest in systems that can prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>History of the Day<\/strong>: The <strong>first-ever <\/strong>International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, <strong>held on 27 December 2020,<\/strong> was <strong>called for by the United Nations General Assembly<\/strong> to advocate the importance of the prevention of, preparedness for, and partnership against epidemics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is an Epidemic?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>An epidemic is a <strong>sudden disease outbreak<\/strong> that <strong>affects<\/strong> a <strong>large number of people<\/strong> in a <strong>particular region<\/strong>, community, or population.<\/li>\n<li>In an epidemic, the <strong>number of people affected <\/strong>by the disease is <strong>larger than<\/strong> what is <strong>normally expected<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yellow fever, smallpox, measles<\/strong>, and polio are prime examples of epidemics.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>An epidemic disease <strong>doesn&#8217;t necessarily have to be contagious.<\/strong> West Nile fever and the rapid increase in obesity rates are also considered epidemics.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is a Pandemic?<\/h3>\n<p>A pandemic is a disease outbreak that spreads across countries or continents. It affects more people and takes more lives than an epidemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2024\/12\/global-solidarity-key-to-future-pandemic-preparedness-says-un-chief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Global solidarity key to future pandemic preparedness, says UN chief<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Day of Epidemic Preparedness is annually observed on December 27 to advocate the importance of prevention of, preparedness for, and partnership against epidemics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29066","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\/29066","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=29066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}