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For PQpq after his landslide victory in the Labour respond to criticism on his own terms, ing the London constituency of Isling- hoper but wanted a token left-wing can- years, he chaired Britain’s Dalit Solidar- leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn through social media. He doesn’t wheel ton North, which he has held to date. didate. ity Network. He’s been an active mem- found himself immersed in a contro- out his family for photo opportunities. His radicalism continued in Parliament ber of global socialist networks, attend- versy on Remembrance Sunday (mark- He’s made a point of focussing on talk- — he was arrested outside the South Rebel or man of principles? ing the 2004 World Social Forum in ing the contribution of World War ser- ing to people directly, as was the case African embassy demonstrating against His detractors denounce him as a rebel Mumbai. He has pledged to work with Jeremy vice personnel). with his first performance at Prime Min- apartheid, brought striking miners into (he voted against the party whip over socialist groups across Europe as Britain Mr. Corbyn, whose anti-monarchist, ister’s Questions in 2015, when he relied the House of Commons, and invited 400 times while Labour was in power, faces up to Brexit. In 2013, he won the anti-conflict views already had many of on questions gathered from the public. former Irish Republican Army prisoners between 1997 and 2010), but to his sup- Gandhi Foundation’s International Corbyn Britain’s tabloids in a tizzy, was lam- An avowed socialist, he has no qualms to the Commons. His journey to the La- porters he is a deeply principled politi- Peace Award. basted for supposedly refusing to bow talking about re-nationalising infrastruc- bour leadership was just as cian, willing to stand up to the party, as he laid a wreath at the ceremony. It ture or raising taxes on businesses and unconventional. and his family, when those values A liability or an asset? Socialist subsequently emerged that not only had the wealthy, an approach shunned by He reluctantly are on the line. Some of the causes he has championed he done so but he had also stayed on Labour since the days of Tony Blair. He agreed to run, after His opposition to grammar have made him easy prey to nationalist after the ceremony to talk to veterans, doesn’t even look like many think a others insisted they’d schools, a selective form of state hysteria. Leading the party has also rebel while other politicians attended a meal politician should: his trademark beard had their turn, and school to which his second wife forced him to compromise on others, for VIPs. came well before fuzz became fashion- just managed to hoped to send one of his sons, such as on Britain’s nuclear deterrent. able while his casual, sometimes maver- scrape together the cost him the marriage. He was However, as he has developed in stature Why the attacks on Mr. Corbyn? ick, dressing style had some Conservat- necessary number of probably the most prominent par- as a leader he has sought to turn some British politics has long been infamous ives seething when he first entered nominations from other liamentary campaigner against of his perceived vulnerabilities on their for the personal nature of media attacks Parliament. Labour MPs to stand, the war in Iraq. He’s also been an head. Mr. Corbyn attacked Britain’s for- on leaders, but the hostility faced by Mr. including active local MP, taking up eign policy, just days after the Corbyn has been something else. It’s How did he get to where he is? from issues raised with Manchester atrocity, appealing to the been driven in part by his steadfast re- Born to peace activists, Mr. Corbyn was him by cam- very soldiers the right-wing media had fusal to play ball with the mainstream involved in politics from a young age, as paign groups, accused him of betraying, with a prom- media — he doesn’t take press questions an early member of the Campaign for such as a ise not to send them into futile wars. after every public speech, and often ig- Nuclear Disarmament, a volunteer in Ja- commit- nores questions out of the context of a maica, and a trade union organiser. He ment to VIDYA RAM CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC WHAT virus spread in many African and Asian bies being born with tiny heads, causing severe foetal brain defects. Though it the end of its public health emergency PQpq countries but caused no harm. But in severe neurological disorders. By the was widely suspected, scientists finally on May 12 this year, the virus appeared 2007, more than a hundred cases were end of January 2016, 4,200 suspected pinned down the Aedes aegypti mos- in India. Between November 2016 and reported at Yap, a tiny island in the cases of microcephaly were reported, quito, common in many tropical coun- February 2017, India reported three loc- south-western Pacific. Six years later, and the virus spread to several other tries including India, as the vector re- ally transmitted cases (two women and Zika spread to French Polynesia, where Latin American countries and to the sponsible for transmitting the virus. a man) of Zika in Gujarat; but the news The lowdown nearly 30,000 people required medical Caribbean, with El Salvador, Jamaica The virus can be spread through came to light only on May 26, 2017 attention. Among them, more than 70 and Colombia advising women to delay blood transfusion. It has also turned up when the WHO published it on its people had severe neurological symp- pregnancy. Last year, on February 1, the in urine, tears and saliva, but it is not website. on the toms and 40 contracted the Guillain- World Health Organisation (WHO) de- confirmed that it can spread through Barré syndrome, in which the immune clared Zika a public health emergency them. Since the virus can stay in semen What next? A year after the system attacks the nervous system, of international concern. The WHO is- longer than in blood, the WHO recom- WHO declared Zika a Zika virus sometimes resulting in paralysis. sued an advisory to pregnant women to mended that couples abstain from sex public health emergency, there has avoid travelling to countries with an out- for at least six months after a man has been some positive news on the vaccine How did it In north-eastern break of the Zika virus. been diagnosed with Zika. Besides front. A single dose of Zika vaccine come about? Brazil, towards the spreading to a few States in the U.S, the made from the Zika virus showed prom- What is Zika is an arbovirus in- end of 2015 and Why does it Besides being virus reached closer to India when it ise in mice and monkeys. More than 40 Zika? fection which occurs within months after the outbreak, the matter? spread by mosqui- was reported in Singapore last August: Zika vaccine candidates are in the through the bite of sev- Zika virus was seen to have a possible toes, the sexual route 330 cases in two months. The virus pipeline and five are entering human eral different species of Aedes mosqui- link to birth defects in babies. While of transmission was confirmed in soon spread to Malaysia, the Philip- clinical trials (Phase I). Back home, the toes, including the Aedes aegypti which nearly 80% of the people infected with France by last February-end; in a matter pines, Thailand and Myanmar. In mid- Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech’s Zika is active during the day; it can also be Zika did not have symptoms, the infec- of days the WHO said sexual transmis- November 2016, the WHO declared that vaccine was found to confer 100% pro- transmitted sexually. The virus was first tion became dangerous if it occurred sion of the virus is “relatively common.” the Zika emergency was over. By the tection on mice. The company has just isolated from a rhesus monkey in during the early stages of pregnancy. In And by mid-April, in a turning point in end of the year, Brazil had confirmed begun clinical trials in humans (Phase I) Uganda in the Zika forest, near the west- some cases, if the virus attacked the the Zika virus outbreak, the U.S.-based about 2,230