{"id":1361,"date":"2024-02-17T18:29:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T12:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:14:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:44:54","slug":"q-which-one-of-the-following-statements-is-not-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-which-one-of-the-following-statements-is-not-correct","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0Which one of the following statements is not correct?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hepatitis B virus is transmitted much like HIV.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hepatitis B, unlike Hepatitis C,\u00a0<strong>does not have<\/strong>\u00a0a vaccine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Globally, the number of people infected with Hepatitis B and C viruses arc several times more than those infected with HIV.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some of those infected with Hepatitis B and C viruses do not show the symptoms for many years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) Hepatitis B, unlike Hepatitis C, does not have a vaccine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hepatitis-b\"><strong>Hepatitis B<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is an infectious disease&nbsp;<strong>caused by an infection with the Hepatitis B virus.<\/strong>&nbsp;It is&nbsp;<strong>contracted through flat tired wounds, contact with blood, saliva, fluids of an infectious body<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sharing personal belongings such as razors or toothbrush of an infected person can also cause Hepatitis B.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hepatitis B symptoms<\/strong>&nbsp;include&nbsp;<strong>abdominal pain, fatigue, and jaundice<\/strong>. Symptoms do not come to the limelight until one to&nbsp;<strong>six months.<\/strong>&nbsp;It could be diagnosed through a common blood test.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hepatitis B Vaccine&nbsp;could be done for both adults and children.<\/strong>&nbsp;It comprises three intramuscular vaccines. Second and third vaccines are provided after one and six months of the first vaccine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hepatitis-c\"><strong>Hepatitis C<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is an infection that is<strong>&nbsp;caused by the Hepatitis C virus in the liver.<\/strong>&nbsp;This can be&nbsp;<strong>transferred from needles that have been infected, at the time of birth (i.e. transmitted from infected mother to child)<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>through body fluids of an infected person<\/strong>, having sex with multiple partners specifically with HIV-infected persons. It is also<strong>&nbsp;rarely<\/strong>&nbsp;found in semen (cum) and vaginal fluids.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hepatitis C is<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>mainly passed on through using contaminated needles and syringes or sharing other items with infected blood on them.<\/strong>&nbsp;It\u2019s also a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that can be passed on through unprotected sex,&nbsp;<strong>especially<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>when blood is present.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>It does not spread through food or water.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Symptoms include<strong>&nbsp;loss of appetite, tiredness, frequently occurring fever, yellowing of your skin or eyes, joint pain, abnormalities in urine, and abdominal pain<\/strong>. These signs occur after&nbsp;<strong>six or seven weeks of exposure to a virus.<\/strong>&nbsp;Signs might take even several years to appear in rare cases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>However, unlike hepatitis B<\/strong>, it is not sexually transmitted and&nbsp;<strong>there is no known vaccine for hepatitis C.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Hepatitis-1024x950.png\" alt=\"Hepatitis\" class=\"wp-image-47595\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read here<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/hepatitis-upsc\/\">Hepatitis \u2013 Causes, Treatment &amp; Types<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (b) Hepatitis B, unlike Hepatitis C, does not have a vaccine. Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Read here:&nbsp;Hepatitis \u2013 Causes, Treatment &amp; Types<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[44],"years":[54],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-science-and-tech","years-54"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":44,"label":"Science and Tech"}],"years":[{"value":54,"label":"2019"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":44,"name":"Science and Tech","slug":"science-and-tech","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":44,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}