{"id":54727,"date":"2025-07-13T16:18:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=54727"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:25:20","slug":"plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Plague Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A resident of north Arizona, United States, recently died from pneumonic plague, marking the first death in the region in 18 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Plague<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plague is an <\/span><b>infectious disease caused by<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a specific type of <\/span><b>zoonotic bacterium called Yersinia pestis.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This disease usually <\/span><b>spreads through bites from fleas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that previously bit an infected animal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plague is infamous for <\/span><b>killing millions of people in Europe during the Middle Ages.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nowadays, it is a<\/span><b> rare but persistent cause of illness in rural areas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>western United States and certain regions of Africa and Asia.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are <\/span><b>three types<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of plague.\u00a0 <\/span><b>Bubonic plague infects <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your <\/span><b>lymph nodes, septicemic plague <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is in your <\/span><b>blood <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>pneumonic plague affects<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> your <\/span><b>lungs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Pneumonic plague,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which spreads to the lungs from other untreated forms of plague, is the <\/span><b>most serious and is usually rare.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plague can be a <\/span><b>very severe disease <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in people, with a<\/span><b> case-fatality ratio of 30% to 60% for the bubonic type<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and is <\/span><b>always fatal for the pneumonic kind when left untreated.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">Plague can be<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> cured with antibiotics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but these must be given promptly to prevent serious illness or death.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/world\/arizona-reports-first-black-death-in-18-years-patient-dies-of-rare-pneumonic-plague-11752329681797.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plague is an infectious disease caused by a specific type of zoonotic bacterium called Yersinia pestis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":54849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1514,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-54727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-plague","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\/54727","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}