.- The rare infection, called mucormycosis -black fungus-, has a mortality rate of 50% and you can risk having to remove your eyes or jaw bone to survive.
The country’s health officials said the governors of Indian states should declare an epidemic as deaths from “black fungus” may have increased.
Thousands of cases of COVID-19 patients have been treated in India, some recovered while others remain in recovery.
The suspicion of doctors regarding the appearance of the black fungus is the use of steroids that were used to treat patients with coronavirus.
The BBC reported that doctors said the fungus appears to attack 12 to 15 days after a patient recovers from COVID-19, with diabetics at even greater risk.
Serious health crisis
The black fungus has affected India even before COVID-19, and now it grows rapidly in patients with the disease and can severely affect the respiratory system.
Many states have experienced shortages of the antifungal drug amphotericin B, which is used to treat the fungus, as authorities did not predict the number of cases.
“If someone has a disease or takes drugs that suppress the immune system, or is exposed to wet surfaces, they can get the disease,” VK Paul explained to CNN.
“For the treatment of COVID-19, we use drugs that suppress our immune system, and when these patients receive oxygen, a humidifier with water supply is used, which can increase the tendency to fungus,” he concluded.
According to Dr. Tatyarao Lahane, a health official in Maharashtra, they are getting an average of 100 cases a day, with only 800 infected people hospitalized in the state alone, according to CNN.
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