Current Affairs Question - 16 April 2020

Explanation :

• Measles, also known as morbilli, rubeola, red measles, and English measles is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by measles virus.
• Measles morbillivirus, formerly called measles virus (MeV), is a single-stranded, negative-sense, enveloped, non-segmented RNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus within the family Paramyxoviridae.
• Humans are the natural hosts of the virus; no animal reservoirs are known to exist.
• Measles is an airborne disease which spreads easily through the coughs and sneezes of infected people.
• It may also be spread through direct contact with mouth or nasal secretions.

Symptoms

• The first sign of measles is usually a high fever, which begins about 10 to 12 days after exposure to the virus, and lasts 4 to 7 days.
• A runny nose, a cough, red and watery eyes, and small white spots inside the cheeks can develop in the initial stage.
• Koplik's spots seen inside the mouth are diagnostic for measles, but are temporary and therefore rarely seen.
• These are small white spots that are commonly seen on the inside of the cheeks opposite the molars.

Explanation :

• The Survey of India is India's central engineering agency in charge of mapping and surveying.
• Set up in 1767 to help consolidate the territories of the British East India Company, it is one of the oldest Engineering Departments of the Government of India.
• Its members are from Survey of India Service cadre of Civil Services of India and Army Officers from the Indian Army Corps of Engineers. It is headed by the Surveyor General of India.
• The Survey of India, headquartered at Dehra Dun, has 18 Geo Spatial divisions ranging from the prediction of tides to aerial survey.
• It has 23 Geo-spatial Data Centers spread across India, each catering to the respective administrative area.

Responsibility

• It dedicates itself to the advancement of theory, practice, collection and applications of geospatial data, and promotes an active exchange of information, ideas, and technological innovations amongst the data producers and users who will get access to such data of highest possible resolution at an affordable cost in the near real-time environment.