{"id":40011,"date":"2018-02-01T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=40011"},"modified":"2018-02-01T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:46:37","slug":"world-leprosy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-leprosy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Leprosy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: When is the &#8216;World Leprosy&#8217; celebrated?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a)\u00a0on the first Sunday of January<br \/>\n(b) on the last Sunday of January<br \/>\n(c) on the first Friday of January<br \/>\n(d) on the last Friday of January<br \/>\n<strong>Reply- (b)\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nrelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On January 28<sup>TH<\/sup>, 2018, World Leprosy Day was celebrated across the world.<\/li>\n<li>This year, its theme was set &#8216;Zero Disability in Boys\u2019 and Girls&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Significantly, this day is celebrated on the last Sunday of January every year.<\/li>\n<li>The purpose of celebrating this day is to create awareness about the help of people suffering from leprosy and to train people who care for people suffering from this disease.<\/li>\n<li>It is known that leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae.<\/li>\n<li>As a result of which there are severe unpleasant lesions on the skin and the nerves of the hands and feet are damaged.<\/li>\n<li>This disease is also known as Hansen&#8217;s disease (named after Dr. Armor Hansen, a doctor who searches for bacterial disease of this disease).<\/li>\n<li>According to the WHO recommendation, effective treatment of leprosy can be done by multidrug therapy (MDT).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lepra.org.uk\/world-leprosy-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.lepra.org.uk\/world-leprosy-day<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytrust.com.ng\/world-leprosy-day-bauchi-achieves-leprosy-elimination-threshold-in-2017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.dailytrust.com.ng\/world-leprosy-day-bauchi-achieves-leprosy-elimination-threshold-in-2017.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: When is the &#8216;World Leprosy&#8217; celebrated? (a)\u00a0on the first Sunday of January (b) on the last Sunday of January (c) on the first Friday of January (d) on the last Friday of January Reply- (b)\u00a0 related facts: On January 28TH, 2018, World Leprosy Day was celebrated across the world. This year, its theme was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[2342,2340],"class_list":["post-40011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ydw-snews","tag-day-week","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}