{"id":4225,"date":"2023-01-23T01:08:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T19:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:07:14","slug":"what-is-yellow-band-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-yellow-band-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Yellow Band Disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Yellow band Disease<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Yellow-band disease\u2014named for the colour it turns corals before destroying them\u2014was first spotted decades ago and has caused widespread damage to reefs in the <strong>Caribbean.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There is <strong>no known cure<\/strong> for this disease and unlike coral, bleaching corals will not be restored once they get infected by this disease.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists believe overfishing, pollution and rising water temperatures because of climate change may be making the reefs more vulnerable to yellow-band disease.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)What are corals?<\/h3>\n<p>Corals are colonies of tiny living creatures that are found in oceans. They are underwater structures that are formed of coral polyps that are held together by calcium carbonate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/watch-why-are-corals-in-thailand-getting-destroyed\/article66396891.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Why are corals in Thailand getting destroyed?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow-band disease that affects coral has caused widespread damage in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4225","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\/4225","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=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}