{"id":46149,"date":"2025-04-25T11:25:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T05:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=46149"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T10:10:04","slug":"measles-rubella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/measles-rubella\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles-Rubella"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Measles-Rubella Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Measles-Rubella (M-R) Elimination Campaign 2025\u201326 aims to achieve 100% immunisation coverage by administering two doses of the M-R vaccine to all eligible children.<\/p>\n<h2>About Measles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Measles is a highly contagious viral disease<\/strong>\u00a0that primarily affects\u00a0<strong>young children<\/strong>\u00a0and can lead to\u00a0<strong>serious complications or death<\/strong>, especially in\u00a0<strong>malnourished children<\/strong>\u00a0or those with\u00a0<strong>weakened immunity<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is caused by an\u00a0<strong>enveloped, single-stranded RNA virus<\/strong>, classified under the\u00a0<strong>genus\u00a0<\/strong><i><strong>Morbillivirus<\/strong><\/i>\u00a0in the\u00a0<strong>Paramyxoviridae family<\/strong>, with\u00a0<strong>only one serotype<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Common complications include\u00a0<strong>blindness<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>encephalitis<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>severe diarrhoea<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>ear infections<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>pneumonia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It spreads through\u00a0<strong>respiratory droplets<\/strong>\u00a0and remains one of the\u00a0<strong>leading causes of vaccine-preventable deaths globally<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About Rubella<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as\u00a0<strong>German Measles<\/strong>, Rubella is a\u00a0<strong>mild viral infection<\/strong>\u00a0that predominantly affects\u00a0<strong>children and young adults<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is caused by the\u00a0<strong>Rubella virus<\/strong>, an\u00a0<strong>enveloped, single-stranded RNA virus<\/strong>, different from the measles virus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rubella is less infectious and milder<\/strong>\u00a0than measles, but it poses a\u00a0<strong>major risk during pregnancy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Infection in pregnant women may lead to\u00a0<strong>Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS)<\/strong>, which causes\u00a0<strong>irreversible birth defects<\/strong>\u00a0like\u00a0<strong>deafness, heart defects<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>intellectual disabilities<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Rubella and measles may have\u00a0<strong>similar rash symptoms<\/strong>, but they are caused by\u00a0<strong>different viruses<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2124032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measles and Rubella are contagious viral diseases; Measles can cause pneumonia and death, while Rubella can lead to severe birth defects during pregnancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[277,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-46149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-measles-rubella","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46149","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}