Suara.com – Doctors in India are now reporting cases of a so called rare infection Black Mushroom in people who recover from Covid-19. Yeast infection is increasingly seen in susceptible patients in India.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this black fungus infection is called mucormycosis and is caused by a group of fungi called mucormycetes. This condition usually lives in soil and decaying organic matter.
Launch from HealthlineThese infections can be life threatening and have a mortality rate of between 46 and 96 percent depending on the severity.
“Mucormycosis is a rare, invasive, opportunistic fungal infection that causes serious, sometimes fatal, disease,” says Dr. KC Rondello, epidemiologist and special advisor to the University Office of Health and Wellness at the University of Adelphi.
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He explained that those most at risk of developing mucormycosis are those that have compromised the immune system making them susceptible to fungal infections and other opportunistic infections.
“This includes individuals who are struggling or have recently recovered from Covid-19 disease,” said Rondello.
“This past month, however, tens of thousands of cases have been reported,” said Dr. Bhakti Hansoti, professor in the department of emergency medicine and international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told the USA today.
Mucormycosis can affect different parts of the body, exhibiting a different set of symptoms. If the infection grows in the sinuses and brain (rhinocerebral mucormycosis), symptoms include fever, swelling of one side of the face, headache, and congestion or sinus congestion.
If your lungs are affected by this fungus, you can experience coughing, chest pain, and shortness of breath. Then when mucormycosis attacks the digestive system, you may experience stomach pain, nausea and vomiting as well as gastrointestinal bleeding.
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“These are environmental fungi that, once they infect you, are very unhealthy and have a high mortality rate,” said Dr. Eric Cioe-Peña, director of Global Health at Northwell Health in New York.
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