{"id":29894,"date":"2025-02-06T06:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T00:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29894"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:13:10","slug":"ranikhet-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ranikhet-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranikhet Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ranikhet Disease Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Suspected highly virulent Ranikhet disease is said to have caused the death of nearly 1.5 lakh chickens in Eluru, Guntur, Prakasam, and the twin Godavari districts in Andhra Pradesh recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About Ranikhet Disease<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>highly contagious viral disease<\/strong> that <strong>affects birds,<\/strong> particularly <strong>poultry <\/strong>such as chickens, turkeys, and ducks.<\/li>\n<li>It is caused by infections with virulent avian avulavirus 1, commonly known as <strong>Newcastle disease virus (NDV)<\/strong> and designated as <strong>avian paramyxovirus-1<\/strong> (APMV-1).<\/li>\n<li>It attacks the <strong>respiratory, nervous, and digestive systems <\/strong>of birds.<\/li>\n<li>It causes<strong> production drops\/fertility problems.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Morbidity is usually high, and <strong>mortality varies from 50 to 100 percent.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>minor zoonosis<\/strong> (disease of animals that can also infect humans) and can cause conjunctivitis in humans, but the condition is generally <strong>very mild and self-limiting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ranikhet Disease Transmission<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Direct contact with secretions<\/strong>, especially faeces, from infected birds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contaminated feed, water<\/strong>, implements, premises, human clothing, etc.<\/li>\n<li>ND <strong>viruses can survive for several weeks in the environment<\/strong>, especially in cool weather.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ranikhet Disease Symptoms<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The symptoms vary according to the age of the affected birds.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The first symptoms usually observed in young birds are <strong>sneezing, gasping, and often droopiness. <\/strong>It is in this stage of the disease that the manifestations rather closely resemble those of infections bronchitis.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Within a short time after the appearance of respiratory symptoms, d<strong>eaths occur in a flock in quick succession <\/strong>and in increasing numbers from day to day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ranikhet Disease Treatment<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>At present there is <strong>no effective treatment of any value.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Proper housing and general good care are indicated in an effort to shorten the duration and severity of the infection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ranikhet Disease FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Which animal is affected by Ranikhet?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Ranikhet disease primarily affects poultry, especially chickens, causing respiratory, digestive, and nervous system issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What causes Ranikhet disease?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is caused by infections with virulent avian avulavirus 1, commonly known as Newcastle disease virus (NDV).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Is Ranikhet disease curable?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Ranikhet disease is not curable once an animal is infected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chandigarh\/ranikhet-disease-suspected-experts-take-samples-again\/articleshow\/80122439.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranikhet Disease is a highly contagious viral disease that affects birds, particularly poultry such as chickens, turkeys, and ducks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29894","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\/29894","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=29894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}