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KYASANUR FOREST DISEASE

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“Since January 1, the Karnataka Department of Health and Family Welfare has conducted 2,567 tests 

and 68 people have been found positive.”

 The disease was fi rst noticed in the Kysanur Forest 

area of Sorab Taluk in Shivamogga district Karnataka 

in 1956, and was named after the region.

 It is also known as monkey fever, as monkeys also 

get infected. 

 The disease spreads through ticks. Primates that 

come in contact with infective ticks contract the 

disease.

 Human beings who visit the forest area either for livelihood, to graze cattle, or to collect fi rewood 

contract the disease.

 Symptoms start to appear three to eight days after the bite of an infective tick. Fever, redness 

of the eyes, severe headache, and body pain are common symptoms. 

 There is no specifi c treatment.      

INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE (ICBM)

 An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a missile with a minimum range of 5,500 kilometres 

primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery.

 Conventional, chemical and biological weapons can also be delivered with varying eff ectiveness, 

but have never been deployed on ICBMs.

 ICBMs are diff erentiated by having greater range and speed than other ballistic missiles.

 The International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (ICOC), now known as The 

Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC), is a political initiative aimed 

at globally curbing ballistic missile proliferation.

 Countries that have ICBMs: India, Russia, the United States, North Korea, China, Israel, the United 

Kingdom, and France.

 The R-7 Semyorka (Russian: Р-7 Семёрка), offi cially the GRAU index 8K71, was the world’s fi rst 

intercontinental ballistic missile.

 India is a signatory to this convention. India’s fi rst indigenously developed ICBM is the Agni-

✅ Himalayan wolf

➖ International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classified the Himalayan wolf as ‘vulnerable’ in its Red List of Threatened Species in 2023.

➖ Found in the Himalayan region encompassing India, Nepal and the Tibetan Plateau of Western China.

➖ Distributed in the upper Himalayan region in Lahaul, Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh and in small areas of Sikkim, Uttarakhand and possibly Arunachal Pradesh.

➖ In Ladakh, there existed a practice called Shang Dong, a traditional wolf concave trap made of stones deep inside the ground and baited with meat.