At least 2 dead from "black fungus" in Nepal

At least two people have died in Nepal from "black fungus", a rare fungal infection mostly found among COVID-19 patients.

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At least two people have died in Nepal from mucormycosis, a rare fungal infection mostly found among COVID-19 patients with diabetes, while the Himalayan country have reported around a dozen of such cases, said government and hospital officials.

Also known as black fungus, mucormycosis affects the brain, sinuses and lungs and can be life-threatening to diabetic or severely immunocompromised individuals like cancer and HIV/AIDS patients. Such cases have appeared mostly among COVID-19 patients in Nepal and neighboring India.

"A 48-year-old man from southwestern Dang district died from mucormycosis at our hospital on Saturday," Rabindra Pradhananga, coordinator of the Mucormycosis Management Committee at the Kathmandu-based Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, told Xinhua.

"His condition was already critical when he was admitted to our hospital. He was earlier infected with coronavirus," said Pradhananga. Mucormycosis also claimed the life of a 65-year-old man at Seti Zonal Hospital in Nepal's southwestern Kailali district on June 3.

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