A 55-year-old man who recovered from COVID-19 in Jabalpur was operated on May 17 after his headache and eye pain did not subside, and a test on Friday detected the white fungus infection or Aspergillu Flavus infection in his nose, making him the first to have the ailment in Madhya Pradesh.
White fungus is curable with medicines and does not need injections like Mucormycosis, better known as black fungus, not is it as deadly as the latter, Both affect people with uncontrolled sugar levels, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College’s ENT Department head Dr. Kavita Sachdeva said, adding that white fungus “is not rare and many people have been cured of it earlier” .
Madhya Pradesh had recently declared black fungus a notified disease. Meanwhile, MP Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang said the state had 650 confirmed cases of black fungus, a rare and dangerous fungal infection being found in people with COVID-19 as well as those who have recovered.
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