{"id":5380,"date":"2022-12-25T06:11:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T00:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2025-03-27T08:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:39:52","slug":"avian-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/avian-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is Avian influenza?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Avian influenza or bird flu is a highly contagious viral disease caused by Influenza Type A viruses which generally affects poultry birds such as chickens and turkeys.<\/li>\n<li>There are many strains of the virus \u2013 some of them are mild and may merely cause a low egg production or other mild symptoms among chickens, while others are severe and lethal.<\/li>\n<li>Wild aquatic birds such as ducks and geese are the natural reservoir of Influenza A viruses and the central players in the ecology of these viruses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>History of bird flu among humans:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was in 1997 when humans are first known to have contracted bird flu following an outbreak in a live bird market of Hong Kong. It was the H5N1 strain of the virus.<\/li>\n<li>Subsequently, several other strains of the virus such as H5N2 and H9N2 spread from animals to humans, thus becoming a global public health concern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Does it spread easily to humans?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>No, it does not. Generally, people coming in close contact with infected alive or dead birds have contracted the H5N1 bird flu, and it does not usually spread from person to person.<\/li>\n<li>There is also no evidence, that the disease can be spread to people through properly prepared and cooked poultry food.<\/li>\n<li>The virus is sensitive to heat, and dies in cooking temperatures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)What is the full form of H5N1?<\/h3>\n<p>The name H5N1 refers to the subtypes of surface antigens present on the virus: hemagglutinin type 5 and neuraminidase type 1. There are 18 different hemagglutinin subtypes and 11 different neuraminidase subtypes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G3PAM45CE.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avian flu is a highly contagious viral disease caused by Influenza Type A viruses affecting poultry birds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5380","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\/5380","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=5380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}