NEW DELHI — Doctors in India are fighting a fatal fungal infection affecting COVID-19 patients or those who have recovered from the disease amid a coronavirus surge that has driven the country’s fatalities to nearly 300,000. The life-threatening condition, known as mucormycosis, is relatively rare but doctors suspect […]
India has ordered tighter surveillance of a rare fungal disease hitting COVID-19 patients, officials said on Thursday, piling pressure on hospitals struggling with the world’s highest number of daily infections of the novel coronavirus. Mucormycosis, or “black fungus” usually infects people whose immune system has been compromised, causing […]
Chandigarh, May 15: Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Saturday said that black fungus has been declared a notified disease in the state. Now, if any cases of this disease are found, the doctors will have to report them to the concerned chief medical officer (CMO), Vij said […]
Control Diabetes, Use Steroids Judiciously, Keep Good Hygiene, Don’t Self-Medicate DELHI, MAY 14: Even as we try our best to protect ourselves from and cope with COVID-19, there is another threat being posed by a fungus, which we must know and act upon. Mucormycosis, a fungal infection, is […]
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