{"id":29654,"date":"2025-01-27T05:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T23:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29654"},"modified":"2025-04-09T09:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T04:18:16","slug":"paraquat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/paraquat\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraquat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Paraquat Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, a 24-year old woman was awarded the death sentence by a Thiruvananthapuram court which found her guilty of poisoning her boyfriend in 2022 with a chemical herbicide called paraquat.<\/p>\n<h2>About Paraquat<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Paraquat, also known as <strong>paraquat dichloride or methyl viologen<\/strong>, is one of the world\u2019s most-used herbicides.<\/li>\n<li>It is primarily <strong>used to control the growth of weeds<\/strong> and desiccate crops like cotton before harvest.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>WHO classifies<\/strong> paraquat as <strong>Category 2<\/strong> (moderately hazardous and moderately irritating) chemical.<\/li>\n<li>Its sale is banned in over 70 countries, including China and the European Union, due to its potent toxicity. It is widely <strong>used in the US and in India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How does Paraquat Poisoning occur?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ingestion<\/strong> is the most common route of exposure,<\/li>\n<li>It may also be transferred and absorbed through <strong>prolonged skin contact<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Symptoms of Paraquat Poisoning<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It depends on the amount, means and length of exposure to the chemical.<\/li>\n<li>If ingested in a small amount, a person would display signs of <strong>damage to the heart, kidneys, liver and lungs<\/strong> over several days or weeks.<\/li>\n<li>If ingested in large amount then the person could <strong>face acute kidney failure, rapid heart rate<\/strong>, failure of the heart and liver, seizures, and respiratory failure.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The person would immediately display abdominal pain, swelling and pain in the mouth and throat, bloody diarrhoea and nausea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Treatments of Paraquat Poisoning<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>There are no known antidotes for paraquat poisoning but some studies mention <strong>immunosuppression<\/strong> or <strong>charcoal haemoper fusion as treatment.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Paraquat FAQs<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Q1: Where does one use Paraquat?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>It is used as an important tool for the control of weeds in many agricultural and non-agricultural settings<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>Is Paraquat degradable?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>It is completely degraded by soil microorganisms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3: <\/strong>What class of poisoning is paraquat?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>It is classified into the mild, moderate, and fulminant poisoning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q4: <\/strong>What is the antidote for Paraquat?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>There&#8217;s no antidote or cure for paraquat poisoning<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-health\/kerala-woman-death-sentence-paraquat-poison-9798873\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paraquat is also known as paraquat dichloride or methyl viologen, is one of the world\u2019s most-used herbicides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29654","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\/29654","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=29654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}