According to Dr Kavita Sachdeva, Head of ENT Department of Jabalpur Medical College, the 40-year-old patient had come a week ago and was suffering from dengue.
Read more about White fungus case reported in Jabalpur, doctor says it s common, curable on Business Standard. A 55-year-old man who had recovered from COVID has been diagnosed with white fungus in Jabalpur even as state is dealing with an outbreak of black fungus among coronavirus patients or survivors
Meanwhile, MP Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang said the state had 650 confirmed cases of black fungus, a rare and dangerous fungal infection being found in people with COVID as well as those who have recovered.
White fungus is curable with medicines and does not need injections like Mucormycosis, better known as black fungus, not is it as deadly as the latter.