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Factoids for Prelims 2021

Viruses are named by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).  

WHO announced “COVID-19” as the name of this new disease on 11 February 2020, following guidelines previously developed with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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What is pneumococcus?

Pneumococcus is a bacteriumthat causes several different types of serious infections in children. But by far the most common is pneumonia. 

Pneumococcus is known as an “opportunistic” infectionbecause it lives in therespiratory tract of people without causing disease,but when the respiratory tract is compromised by an infection such as influenza, the bacteria then invades the lungs (pneumonia), bloodstream (sepsis), or brain and spinal cord (meningitis).

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 A steep recession might increase the natural unemployment rate if workers lose the skills necessary to find full-time work. Economists sometimes call thishysteresis.”

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 the poison pill, the crown-jewel defense,golden parachute, or the Pac-Man defense :  company's management will defend against unwantedhostile takeoversby using several controversial strategies

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