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White Fungus: A deadly Infection What is White Fungus?  White fungus is a fungal infection where there is form of whitish membrane or discharge caused by candida group of organism . White fungus is a fungal infection called candidiasis. It can caused by the unsterile use of oxygen cylinders or the overuse of steroids.  After black fungus infection, now a white fungus infection surface in Patna, Bihar. According to several media reports it is even more deadlier than Black Fungus.  From earlier reports, what we know is, unlike the black fungus whose symptoms are visible to us (like..black crust like formation,one sided swelling etc. ) , a White fungus infection, may only be traced by conducting an HRCT (High Resolution computed tomography)  or equivalent test.  For any fungal infection spread in recent time, we can easily observe that peoples with multiple disease, weaker immunity, or patients using steroids have higher chances of getting into it.  How it is ...

 Doctors in India are concerned about an increasing number of potential fungal infection affecting either people who have COVID-19 or those who have recently recovered from the disease. The condition known as MUCORMYCOSIS has a high mortality rate and was present in India before the pandemic. Some experts attribute the fungal infections to an increased use of steroids to treat hospitalised patients. Another could be that , with hospital overwhelmed in this second wave of pandemic, many families are self medicating and applying oxygen therapy at home without the proper hygiene, expert say. What is mucormycosis? Black fungus is a serious but rare fungal infection caused by group of molds that live in environment called mucormycosis. Mucormycosis mainly affects people who have health problems or take medicine that lower the body's ability to fight germs and sickness . This disease can be fatal . It most commonly affects the sinuses or the lungs after inhaling fungal spores from the ai...

CORONA VIRUS    Corona virus disease (COVID -19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Most of the people infected with the COVID -19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. Older people, and those with underlying medical problems like cardiovascular disease , diabetes, chronic respiratory disease and cancer are likely to develop serious illness. How does corona virus spread?  Expert believe the virus that causes COVID-19 spreads mainly from person to person . Droplet or aerosols- when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks droplet or tiny particles called aerosols carry the virus into air from their nose or mouth.  Airborne transmission- research shows that the virus can live in the air for up to 3 hours. It can get into your lungs if someone who had it breaths out and you breath that air in. Surface transmission- when you touch surfaces that someone who has the vir...