Apart from the usual cough and fever symptoms, COVID-19 can impact your body in a profound number of ways. ‘Black fungus’ is the latest manifestations seen around in the second wave of the pandemic in India. What is black fungus? Does it affect our eyesight too?
A life-threatening infection known as mucormycosis, colloquially as a black fungus, is being detected in Delhi, Maharashtra, and Gujarat relatively frequently among COVID-19 patients. It is caused by exposure to mucor mold which is found in soil, plants, manure, and decaying fruits and vegetable.
“Mucormycosis is dangerous if left untreated can cause mutilating damage to face, nose, eyes with disfigurement and loss of vision and also cause invasive brain infection,” Dr. Mahesh Kumar, Consultant -Internal Medicine, Narayana Health City, Bengaluru, told news agency IANS.
The fungus affects the people who are on medication for other health problems that reduce their ability to fight environmental…