Health
India battles rash of ‘black fungus’ cases hitting COVID patients – Al Jazeera English
Mucormycosis, a rare fungal disease, usually infects people whose immune system has been compromised.
India has ordered tighter surveillance of a rare fungal disease hitting COVID-19 patients, officials said, piling pressure on hospitals struggling with the worlds highest number of daily infections of the novel coronavirus.
Mucormycosis, or black fungus, usually infects people whose immune system has been compromised, causing blackening or discolouration over the nose, blurred or double vision, chest pain, breathing difficulties and coughing blood.
Doctors believe that the use of steroids to treat…
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