India has more than 28,000 'black fungus' cases: Health Minister:
"From 28 states, we have some 28,252 cases of mucormycosis till now. Out of this, 86 percent, or 24,370 cases, have a history of COVID-19 and 62.3 percent, or 17,601, have a history of diabetes," [Health Minister Harsh] Vardhan said in a meeting with a group of federal ministers.
[...] Mucormycosis causes blackening or discolouration over the nose, blurred or double vision, chest pain, breathing difficulties and coughing of blood. Coronavirus patients with diabetes and a weakened immune system are particularly prone to attack.
[...] Health experts say India's poor air quality and excessive dust in cities, like Mumbai, make it easier for the fungi to thrive, terming the recent spike in cases a matter of "serious concern".
"We and most mainstream hospitals have seen more mucormycosis cases in the past month than in the previous five years," Dr Arvinder Soin, chairman of the Medanta Liver Transplant Institute at Gurugram, told Al Jazeera.
[...] Dr Sumit Mrig, who heads the ENT department at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi [said] they used to see one or two such cases in a week before the second wave of the pandemic. [...] at present, we are seeing five to six such patients on a daily basis," Mrig said.
[...] "Apart from the high mortality associated with disease which rapidly spreads from nose and sinuses to the eye and brain in a span of 24 to 48 hours, if treatment is not initiated on time, the patient can lose his eyesight. Once it involves the brain, the mortality is approximately 80 percent," Mrig added.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 11 2021, @11:57PM (1 child)
Wow, just as the farmers started the uprising. Jew shitbags, nobody likes.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @08:51AM
I know right??? That damn jew media trying to cover up sending 28,000 republican brainwashers to India. Thankfully they could see their black hearts!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @12:07AM
Eat more vindaloos, with extra vinegar and garam massala, plus extra helping of turmeric as insurance.
Them knukleheads ignored my sage advice just because I'm a contaminated desi.
May the Lord Shiva have mercy on your pityful souls.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @12:22AM (5 children)
Best hospital name ever!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @12:30AM
The operating theater has a cone of silence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @12:56AM
It's the hospital where the Indian Gregory House bangs the Indian Cutty - and then the whole Michael Jackson music video dance sequence blows up.
(Score: 3, Funny) by mhajicek on Saturday June 12 2021, @05:34AM
I should call them on my shoe phone.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 3, Funny) by Farmer Tim on Saturday June 12 2021, @06:18AM (1 child)
Came for the news, stayed for the soap opera.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday June 12 2021, @09:39AM
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @12:34AM (5 children)
Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday June 12 2021, @02:13AM (3 children)
Actually, that statement is pretty accurate.
In any given year, the average person is exposed to more germs, viruses, spores, etc than he will ever know about. The healthy person shrugs them off. The unhealthy person catches something, is further weakened, catches something else, is weakened even more, then catches something again.
Consider AIDS. Most people die of 'complications' after fighting AIDS for years. Colds, flu, pneumonia, some random infection, until finally they run out of fight.
TFS states pretty clearly that most people who get the black fungus have already been compromised by the COVID and/or diabetes. There's that 'complications' thing again.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday June 12 2021, @03:15AM
AIDS specifically is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- a virus that directly undermines immune response and protection. After that, your cells aren't weakened, they're not so much weakened as they're completely defenseless. I suspect unhealthy people with a functional immune response can probably shrug off most germs and viruses, they'll just suffer along with the pre-existing symptoms associated from their existing unhealthiness.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @09:12AM (1 child)
A bullet wound is pretty much like a pin prick, needle injections, splinters, etc... A healthy person shrugs them off. Sure, the hole's a little bigger, but that isn't really the problem most of the time. It's the "complications" like bleeding that make you finally run out of fight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @03:52PM
That's why we need XL magazines and full auto because 1 bullet or even 6 is just a pin prick. If you want to stop a Bad Guy(tm) you need something with real stopping power.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @11:49AM
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @01:13AM
It's fuzzy white fungus with coal dust.
It's white racist narrative to keep the brown people down as always.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Hartree on Saturday June 12 2021, @03:37AM
Amphotericin B works well, but has such a problem with side effects that it's called Amphoterrible or Shake and Bake (the latter due to fever and shivering from the chills a few hours after it's given).
One of our research groups where I work studies finding ways to make it less toxic to the people it's meant to save.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @04:45AM (4 children)
How can people possibly find this lifestyle acceptable? You'd think this was middle age Britain or something, emptying their pisspots on the sidewalk. It's downright sleazy. Fucking gross!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @06:59AM (1 child)
Some people seem to be obsessed with scatology. Indian scatology, to be more precise. Admit it, you just want to look at Indian poop-holes. And, as India installs more and more public toilets, you're being frustrated in your poop-hole peeping.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/05/asia/india-modi-open-defecation-free-intl-hnk-scli/index.html [cnn.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 17 2021, @07:14PM
Heh, your link confirms exactly what I said. You gotta convince people to use and clean them. The place is pure filth. It's a culture thing, not engineering or plumbing.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday June 12 2021, @09:45AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @03:54PM
Came here for the racists - was disappointed. -1
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 12 2021, @05:58PM
Stop sending aid to non white countries. All it does is breed more non-whites that can't take care of themselves. These poor monkeys are growing fungus, ffs!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @02:00AM
Nature will balance it out