Mucormycosis
Fungal infection
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Mucormycosis, also known as black fungus, is a serious fungal infection, usually in people who are immunocompromised. Symptoms depend on where in the body the infection occurs. It most commonly infects the nose, sinuses, eye, and brain resulting in a runny nose, one-sided facial swelling and pain, headache, fever, blurred vision, bulging or displacement of the eye (proptosis), and tissue death. Other forms of disease may infect the lungs, stomach and intestines, and skin.
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India reports 45,374 Black fungus cases, 4,332 deaths so far, says Health MinistryAs many as 45,374 cases of Mucormycosis or 'Black fungus' were reported in the country so far, said the union health ministry on Thursday.IndiaTimes - Published | |
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