Vigilance against black fungus

This is an opportunistic infection mainly affecting immunocompromised people.

At a time when we are trying to contain the highly contagious coronavirus, a new threat, an outbreak of infection known as mucormycosis, popularly called black fungus, has emerged. It is caused by a group of transparent moulds called mucormycetes (formerly known as zygomycetes). The involved tissues turn red, violet and finally black due to tissue necrosis, forming black eschars, and so the disease has been given the name black fungus (