{"id":3378,"date":"2023-02-13T09:56:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T04:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:34:08","slug":"cholera-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cholera-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholera Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Cholera Disease:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a life-threatening infectious disease and a public health hazard.<\/li>\n<li>It is an acute, diarrheal illness caused by infection of the intestine with <strong>the bacterium Vibrio cholera.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong>\u00a0 Profuse watery diarrhoea, Vomiting,\u00a0 Leg cramps etc<\/li>\n<li>It is transmitted to humans through <strong>water<\/strong> or <strong>food<\/strong> which is contaminated with the cholera bacterium.<\/li>\n<li>The disease can spread rapidly in areas with inadequate treatment of sewage and drinking water.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, there are three WHO pre-qualified oral cholera vaccines (OCV), <strong>Dukoral, Shanchol, and Euvichol-Plus.<\/strong> All three vaccines require two doses for full protection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the goal of the World Health Organisation?<\/h3>\n<p>Our goal of WHO is to ensure that a billion more people have universal health coverage, to protect a billion more people from health emergencies, and provide a further billion people with better health and well-being.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/africa\/climate-change-may-worsen-cholera-crisis-in-africa-who-87633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>\u00a0Climate change may worsen cholera crisis in Africa: WHO<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cholera disease is an acute, diarrheal illness caused by infection of intestine with bacterium Vibrio cholera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3378","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\/3378","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=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}