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Cow dung is likely behind black fungus (mucormycosis disease) that killed thousands of patients treated in India for COVID-19 in 2021 due to black fungus.
the potential harm its products can cause, fueling an epidemic of vaping among minors. juul still faces 2000 other lawsuits. the second wave of coronavirus to hit india had a devastating impact. but while infection rates are slowing significantly, the country is now grappling with more than forty thousand cases of a fungal infection called mucormycosis. the disease has been declared an epidemic in india. thousands have died of it. for it has led to this surge. doctors say covid and the treatment being given for it has led to this surge. from a public hospital in pune, one of the worst affected districts, our india correspondent yogita limaye reports. covid has left behind in india a new epidemic mucormycosis. a fungus that attacks parts of the brain, face and lungs. not contagious, but aggressive.
the injection needed to treat a rare disease, expensive and hard to find. with covid and mucormycosis, india s stretched healthcare facilities have had no respite. just a small percentage of the population has been vaccinated so far, and government experts are warning a third surge could be here in less than a couple of months. 0utside these walls, people are yet to come to terms with the trauma that hit them during the second wave. siddharth kharadi was 19. he got covid and then mucormycosis. his family says it wasn t diagnosed early enough to save him. he was such a caring son. i really miss him, his mother, suvarna, tells me. siddharth underwent multiple operations. the family sold their jewellery to pay hospital bills. his father, sandeep kharadi, says, sometimes i still don t understand where this illness came from.