According to reports published in the newspapers, doctors at Delhi-based Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) have reported multiple cases of deadly fungal infection mucormycosis in the recovering coronavirus patients.
- The black fungal infection, triggered by Covid-19, last year caused many of the patients to lose their eyesight.
What is Mucormycosis?
- According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mucormycosis (previously called zygomycosis) is a serious but rare fungal infection caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes.
- These molds live throughout the environment. Mucormycosis mainly affects people who have health problems or take medicines that lower the body’s ability to fight germs and sickness.
- It most commonly affects the sinuses or the lungs after inhaling fungal spores from the air. It can also occur on the skin after a cut, burn, or other type of skin injury.
- Its some of the symptoms are: One-sided facial swelling, Headache, Nasal or sinus congestion, Black lesions on nasal bridge or upper inside of mouth that quickly become more severe and Fever.
(Source: CDCP)
