Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MDResearch has shown that fungal lung infections in lungs can possibly be mistaken for lung ...

He had inserted a tube in her nose and was removing tissues infected with mucormycosis, a rare but dangerous fungal infection. This aggressive infection affects the nose, eye and sometimes the brain.

Fungal infections caused by members of the Mucorales order are rapidly progressing and fatal. The importance of mucormycosis has grown in recent years as the number of patients with predisposing ...

Queensland man Paul Minuzzo had his top jaw and teeth removed after contracting a life-threatening fungal infection known as mucormycosis. Mr Minuzzo doesn't know where the infection came from ...

Mucormycosis is a rare and potentially fatal fungal infection that most commonly affects the immunocompromised population. Although originally described by Paltauf in 1885 (D. G. Finn as cited by ...

India has reported 45,374 cases of this rare and dangerous infection, called mucormycosis, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has said. It affects the nose, eyes and sometimes the brain ...

However, the researcher told the C5N news channel that there may be more cases because mucormycosis is not notifiable. In India, more than 9,000 patients were diagnosed with a fungal infection ...

The central government has asked all the states to declare black fungus infection as an epidemic. More than 5,400 cases of mucormycosis or black fungus have been registered so far in 18 states.

These infections are common in people with very low immunity. Recently there is increase usage of Posaconazole for black fungus or mucormycosis in COVID-19 positive cases. Posaconazole is ...