{"id":81192,"date":"2021-10-04T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=81192"},"modified":"2021-10-04T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:07:39","slug":"leprosy-is-the-oldest-disease-in-the-world-caused-by-which-microorganism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/leprosy-is-the-oldest-disease-in-the-world-caused-by-which-microorganism\/","title":{"rendered":"Leprosy is the oldest disease in the world caused by which microorganism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A. Virus<br \/>\nB. Fungi<br \/>\n<strong>C. Bacteria<\/strong><br \/>\nD. None<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hansen&#8217;s disease (also known as leprosy) is an infection caused by slow-growing bacteria called\u00a0<b>Mycobacterium leprae<\/b>. It can affect the nerves, skin, eyes, and lining of the nose (nasal mucosa). With early diagnosis and treatment, the disease can be cured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. Virus B. Fungi C. Bacteria D. None Explanation: Hansen&#8217;s disease (also known as leprosy) is an infection caused by slow-growing bacteria called\u00a0Mycobacterium leprae. It can affect the nerves, skin, eyes, and lining of the nose (nasal mucosa). With early diagnosis and treatment, the disease can be cured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,400],"tags":[26675,27193],"class_list":{"0":"post-81192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-knowledge-mcqs","8":"category-general-science-mcqs","9":"tag-biology","10":"tag-causes-of-disease"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}