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.

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

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 ...

Another patient became seriously ill in a separate Mucor infection. It's a type of mould, commonly found in soil or rotting organic material such as food. Infection is usually caused by breathing ...

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 ...

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.