{"id":4872,"date":"2023-01-09T02:32:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T21:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:56:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:26:46","slug":"what-is-african-swine-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-african-swine-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"What is African Swine Flu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About African Swine Flu:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>African swine fever (ASF) is a highly <strong>contagious viral disease of domestic and wild pigs<\/strong>, whose mortality rate can reach 100%.\n<ul>\n<li>The virus belongs to <strong>Asfarviridae family<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms :<\/strong> vomiting, Diarrhea,reddening or darkening of the skin, particularly ears and snout, gummed up eyes etc.<\/li>\n<li>African Swine Fever can be <strong>spread through<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Direct contact with infected pigs, faeces or body fluid<\/li>\n<li>Indirect contact via fomites such as equipment, vehicles or people who work with pigs between pig farms with ineffective biosecurity.<\/li>\n<li>Pigs eating infected pig meat or meat products.<\/li>\n<li>Biological vectors &#8211; ticks of the species Ornithodoros.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>endemic to sub-Saharan Africa<\/strong> but has spread to many other regions of the world, including Asia and Europe.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>not known to affect human beings<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>There <strong>is no cure or precaution available<\/strong> for the infection and <strong>no approved vaccine <\/strong>So the only way to stop it spreading is by culling the animals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is a virus?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A virus is an infectious microbe consisting of a segment of nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protein coat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/african-swine-fever-scare-700-pigs-culled-in-damoh-madhya-pradesh-86968#:~:text=Published%3A%20Thursday%2005%20January%202023&amp;text=The%20district%20administration%20of%20Damoh,Hata%20block%2C%20according%20to%20ANI.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>African Swine Fever scare: 700 pigs culled in Damoh, Madhya Pradesh<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African swine fever is a highly contagious viral disease of domestic and wild pigs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4872","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\/4872","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=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}