What is Mucormycosis? Know how this Black Fungus can affect your eyesight The typical symptoms of Black Fungus are a stuffy and bleeding nose, swelling of and pain in eye, drooping of eyelids, and blurred or loss of vision. File photo (Reuters) Updated: May 10, 2021, 06:05 PM IST 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.