India has recorded 45,000 cases of a deadly “black fungus” known as mucormycosis over the last 2 months, as a nationwide outbreak sweeps through COVID-19 patients.
The infection, while not directly COVID affiliated, usually strikes patients after recovery from the disease and was once considered very rare until cases became more frequent during the pandemic.
Mucormycosis has been declared an epidemic in India as it slowly recovers from a devastating wave of COVID problems.