For the last several weeks, the Indian media both newspapers and the TV have been reporting patients who developed mucormycosis (majority rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis (ROCM)), wrongly called as “Black fungus,” within short time of COVID-19 recovery or during the disease itself. The reports have emerged from several states such as Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Delhi to name a few and have created an alarming situation for want of an effective treatment and extremely high mortality….. FULL TEXT

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