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Pradeep Kumar

23/05/21 14:01 PM IST

Gujarat emerges as a hotspot for mucormycosis

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With over 2,000 cases, Gujarat has emerged as the hotspot for mucormycosis, or black fungus, which has already claimed more than 250 lives in the State.

Highlights
  • Gujarat has 2,281 mucormycosis patients, which is the highest for any State in the country.
  • After the cases rose significantly, the Gujarat government declared the fungal infection, which has a high fatality rate, an epidemic under the provision of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1857.
  • The State government has set up special wards in the civil hospitals in Ahmedabad, Surat and Rajkot to deal with the cases.
About the disease
  • Mucormycosis (previously called zygomycosis) is a serious but rare fungal infection caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes. 
  • Mucormycosis mainly affects people who have health problems or take medicines that lower the body’s ability to fight germs and sickness.
  • It most commonly affects the sinuses or the lungs after inhaling fungal spores from the air.
  • It can also occur on the skin after a cut, burn, or other type of skin injury.
Source: The Hindu

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