BLACK FUNGUS
Topic: Health Related Issues
- It is a disease being detected relatively frequently among Covid-19 patients in some states.
- It is a rare but serious fungal infection.
- The disease often manifests in the skin and also affect the lungs and the brain.
- Caused by a group of moulds known as mucoromycetes present naturally in the environment.
It mainly affects people who are on medication for health problems that reduces their ability to fight environmental pathogens.
- Sinuses or lungs of such individuals get affected after they inhale fungal spores from the air.
- Warning sings include pain and redness around the eye or nose, with fever, headache, coughing, shortness of breath, bloody vomits, and altered mental status.
- Treated with antifungals.
- It may eventually require surgery.
