GS Paper 2 Topics Covered: Issues related to health. Context: The Department of Biotechnology has launched a ‘One Health’ consortium. This is the First ‘One Health’ project of the DBT. About the project: It envisages carrying out surveillance of important bacterial, viral and parasitic infections of zoonotic as well as transboundary pathogens in …
GS Paper 2 Topics Covered: Issues related to Health. Context: After a gap of over three years, a case of the zoonotic Nipah virus infection has been reported in Kozhikode district of Kerala. What measures are being taken to control the spread of the virus? A contact list of 188 persons, a majority of them …
Introduction: In the first 20 years of the 21st century, the world has seen outbreaks of avian influenza, Ebola virus disease, Zika virus disease, Nipah virus disease, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Disease (MERS) and now, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Of these, three — SARS, MERS and COVID-19 are …
