Black Fungus or Mucormycosis Stalks in State.

Hon’ble Education and Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath has said Black Fungus has been found in a woman. She is admitted in ILS hospital.

Black Fungus or Mucormycosis – a rare but potentially fatal fungal infection – is rapidly taking hold in several states during India’s devastating second wave of the coronavirus. Mucormycosis, or Black Fungus, usually infects people whose immune system has been compromised, causing blackening or discolouration over the nose, blurred or double vision, chest pain, breathing difficulties and coughing blood.

The affected states include national capital Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana, among others. ‘Black Fungus’ or ‘Mucormycosis’, it is a rare kind of fungal infection affecting. The disease is often characterised by hyphae growing in and around blood vessels and can be potentially life-threatening in diabetic or severely immunocompromised individuals.