{"id":4972,"date":"2022-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/22-10-2022\/viral-spillover-risk\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T00:00:00","slug":"viral-spillover-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/22-10-2022\/viral-spillover-risk","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Viral spillover risk\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><strong>In News\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">The effects of climate change are being witnessed across a range of environments<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">According to new research, yet another effect could be the increased risk of <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>\u201cviral spillover<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">\u201d in some regions could cause new pandemics over the next few years.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><strong>What is viral spillover?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Viruses are some of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>most abundant entities on earth<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">, but they <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>need to infect a host\u2019s cell in order to replicate.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">According to the research, <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>these virus\/host relationships seem<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> relatively stable within superkingdoms, the major groupings of organisms.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">However, below this rank, viruses may infect a new host from a reservoir host (in which it usually resides) by being able to transmit sustainably in a novel host \u2013 a process defined as<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong> \u2018viral spillover\u2019.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Researchers\u00a0 estimated the<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong> spillover risk<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> and found that the<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong> chances of a virus moving to a new host increases with runoff from glacier melt,<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> treated by them as a proxy for climate change.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">\u00a0As temperatures increase, the melting of glaciers increases as well, and there is a greater possibility for previously ice-trapped viruses and bacteria to find new hosts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">\u00a0It was found that the risk of viral spillovers increases with changes in the environment at a particular location, driven by global warming; this by itself does not guarantee a higher possibility of a pandemic occurring via viruses here.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Source:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/what-viral-spillover-risk-means-how-it-could-lead-to-new-pandemics-8223753\/\" style=\"text-decoration-line:none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\">IE<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News\u00a0 The effects of climate change are being witnessed across a range of environments According to new research, yet another effect could be the increased risk of \u201cviral spillover\u201d in some regions could cause new pandemics over the next few years. What is viral spillover? 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