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Mumbai: Demand for anti-fungal injection Amphotericin B rises with surge in Mucormycosis cases
Mumbai: Demand for anti-fungal injection Amphotericin B rises with surge in Mucormycosis cases
Mumbai: With the rise in cases of mucormycosis in Covid patients, there has been a corresponding rise in demand for the injection Amphotericin B, by almost 15-20 per cent, amid the second wave of coronavirus lashing the state. Last week, The Free Press Journal had reported that the city hospital had 151 patients suffering from this fungal condition, with many of them suffering loss of vision and facial disfigurement.
In the pre-Covid era, mucormycosis was known to be a rare serious fungal infection seen in immune-compromised patients. It is caused by a group of moulds known as mucormycetes, present naturally in the environment. Mucormycosis is said to invade the facial bones, the eye orbit and can spread to the brain rapidly. It has a 70 per cent mortality rate â meaning seven out o