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Deadly fungus stalks India’s COVID wards – Medical Xpress
Coronavirus patient Parvesh Dubey died within just one week of contracting black fungus—the latest victim of a horrifying COVID-19 complication sweeping India.

Coronavirus patient Parvesh Dubey died within just one week of contracting black fungusthe latest victim of a horrifying COVID-19 complication sweeping India.
Thousands have developed the fungus in recent weeks in a wave of infections blamed on excessive use of steroids to treat the country’s millions of COVID patients, experts say.
Previously very rare, mucormycosis, as it is scientifically known, is highly aggressive and surgeons sometimes have to remove patients’ eyes, nose and jaw to stop it…
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