{"id":80927,"date":"2026-01-04T11:29:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=80927"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:18:25","slug":"cetacean-morbillivirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cetacean-morbillivirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cetacean morbillivirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Cetacean morbillivirus Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, scientists used drones to find a dangerous Cetacean morbillivirus among whales in the Arctic.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Cetacean morbillivirus<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV) refers to a <\/span><b>viral infection<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> affecting marine mammals, particularly cetaceans.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It belongs to the <\/span><b>family \u200bParamyxoviridae\u200b,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which affects\u00a0 <\/span><b>marine mammals such as dolphins, whales, and porpoises.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Characteristics:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These viruses are enveloped, negative-sense <\/span><b>single-stranded RNA viruses<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>History:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Morbilliviruses were first identified in <\/span><b>marine mammals in 1987.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been responsible for numerous outbreaks across the world, especially in the North <\/span><b>Atlantic and the Mediterranean.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Transmission:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 It is <\/span><b>highly infectious<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and spread by the respiratory route and direct contact. The virus is shed by infected animals in ocular and respiratory <\/span><b>secretions, urine, feces, and sloughed skin.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>impacts the respiratory and neurological systems<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the marine mammals, and can lead to mass strandings and deaths.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Treatment:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> There is <\/span><b>no treatment for morbillivirus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> infections in marine mammals, only supportive care.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>What are Cetaceans?<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cetacea are one of the most distinctive and highly <\/span><b>specialized orders of mammals.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cetaceans (order Cetacea) are aquatic mammals, including <\/span><b>whales, dolphins, and porpoises.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cetaceans are <\/span><b>entirely carnivorous<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and are <\/span><b>distributed in all of the world&#8217;s oceans.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/drones-virus-whales-arctic-10452231\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV) is a viral disease affecting dolphins, whales, and porpoises, belonging to the Paramyxoviridae family. 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