{"id":8696,"date":"2023-04-18T05:29:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T23:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8696"},"modified":"2025-03-29T04:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T23:03:18","slug":"what-is-blastomycosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-blastomycosis\/","title":{"rendered":"What is  Blastomycosis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Blastomycosis:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an infection caused by <strong>a fungus<\/strong> of the <strong>genus Blastomyces.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is found <strong>in moist soil and decomposing wood<\/strong> and leaves in the mid-western, south-central and south-eastern states of the US.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transmission:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The microscopic spores from the fungus can get dispersed in the air and travel freely.<\/li>\n<li>Human beings can contract blastomycosis<strong> by inhaling the spores.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>not contagious between animals and people<\/strong> through the air.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The symptoms of blastomycosis in animals are similar to the symptoms in humans.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong> Fever, Cough, Breathing difficulty and muscle aches etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treatment: <\/strong>Itraconazole is a type of antifungal medication that is typically used to treat mild to moderate blastomycosis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Fungi?<\/h3>\n<p>Fungi are a diverse group of organisms that include yeasts, molds, and mushrooms. They are a separate kingdom of living things, distinct from plants, animals, and bacteria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/health\/what-we-know-about-blastomyces-the-fungus-that-killed-1-infected-100-at-a-michigan-paper-mill-88783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What we know about Blastomyces, the fungus that killed 1 &amp; infected 100 at a Michigan paper mill<\/u><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blastomycosis is an infection caused by a fungus of the genus Blastomyces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8696","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\/8696","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=8696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}