Many states in India, including Haryana, Maharashtra and Delhi, have witnessed cases of this infection among Covid-19 patients. Mucormycosis is a rare and serious fungal infection that has been present for a long time now. While the cases of this infection were relatively less, the Covid-19 outbreak has given a boost to the spread of … Read more
“Covid-19 is a global menace but why don’t we hear this from other countries and why is mucormycosis seeming like an India story?” The language of Covid-19 is getting as painful and unpredictable as the pandemic itself. With each passing day new hard-to-pronounce drugs and symptoms are getting added to the vocabulary of desperate family … Read more
Patients who had severe Covid-19 infection and were admitted for a long time in ICU are likely to have weak immunity which renders them more vulnerable to the infection. Amidst rising concern over the increasing number of cases of Black Fungus among recovered Coronavirus patients, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan today said that awareness about … Read more
Steroid treatment is essential for patients who are hospitalized for Covid-19. By Dr Ashit Hegde Who would have thought that even as we struggle to fight off the Covid-19 threat, another one could emerge in its shadow. Mucormycosis, a serious, potentially deadly fungal infection with a mortality rate of about 50 per cent could become … Read more