The rise of a rare COVID-19 complication known as “black fungus” adds to India’s misery in the pandemic Earlier this month, as the coronavirus was rampaging through India’s populous cities and rural communities, medical professionals in hospitals began warning of an alarming epidemic of deadly fungal infections
Mucormycosis (a disease caused by saprophytic fungi that gets its nourishment from dead or decaying organic material) and given the title “black fungus.”
Many of those afflicted with this rare condition are patients who have developed or had recently recovered from COVID-19.
An Indian doctor examines a man for the symptoms of mucormycosis at a government hospital in Mumbai on May 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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endIndex: In early May, doctors in India began raising the alarm about a rise in mucormycosis a rare and potentially deadly infection also known as black fungus. (FILE PHOTO)
(CNN) In early May, doctors in India began raising the alarm about a rise in mucormycosis a rare and potentially deadly infection also known as black fungus.
Many of those being infected are coronavirus patients, or those who have recently recovered from Covid-19, whose immune systems have been weakened by the virus or who have underlying conditions most notably diabetes.
In the past few weeks, thousands of black fungus cases have been reported across the country, with hundreds hospitalized and at least 90 dead. Two states have declared it an epidemic, and the central government has made it a notifiable disease.
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