Fungal disease is emerging among hundreds of COVID-19 patients in India, shows study
Authorities scramble to provide drugs to treat a fungal disease affecting India s COVID-19 patients. A fungal disease called mucormycosis is emerging among hundreds of COVID-19 patients in India, placing further strain on hospitals already at breaking point.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that mucormycosis, also known as black fungus, is a serious but rare infection caused by a group of moulds called mucormycetes. It usually affects the sinuses or lungs after fungal spores are inhaled from the air but can also occur on the skin after a cut or burn.
The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 20.7 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago and U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 14.0 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 36,451
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 693
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 78.7 doses per 100 people.
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases little changed and deaths improved
Increased transmissibility of B.1.617 variant may be impacting Covid-19 spread in India
Scientists race to study variants in India as cases explode
Black fungus stalks COVID-19 patients in India
A woman undergoes a check-up. The new strain of COVID-19 virus can cause patients’ blood sugars to shoot up, creating a suitable environment for mucormycosis. Copyright: Trinity Care Foundation, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). This image has been cropped.
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Rainwater enters SSKM Medical College and Hospital Senior doctors, nursing staff and health workers of the gynaecology department joined hands to ensure no patient faced difficulty
Several patients in the gynaecology section of SSKM Medical College and Hospital had to be shifted and many others moved to one side as rainwater flooded the department’s ground floor on Tuesday afternoon.
Senior doctors, nursing staff and health workers of the department joined hands to ensure no patient faced difficulty when water accumulated in the building, which is located opposite the Ronald Ross building in the northern end of the Bhowanipore campus.
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