In recent developments, three children in Mumbai had to undergo surgery to remove an eye each after contracting Black Fungus.
The doctors have reportedly stated that Mucormycosis or Black Fungus cases in children are a worrying sign. The infection targets COVID-19 patients with comorbidities like diabetes and is dangerous, even after one recovers from the coronavirus.
According to reports, three children, 4, 6 and 14 years old, were operated upon at two hospitals in Mumbai. The first two children are not diabetic, but the 14-year-old child is. A fourth child, a 16-year-old, became diabetic after recovering from the coronavirus and a part of her stomach was found infected with Black Fungus.
On the other hand, the Sars-Cov-2 delta variant not only has a 40 per cent higher transmission rate compared to the alpha variant (which in turn has a 50 per cent higher transmissibility than the original strain of the virus), it also causes a much more severe disease than alpha.
This is leading to a further rise in the percentage of positive cases that require hospitalization, even though the infection is in younger people. The delta variant causes acute and severe immune suppression and an acute hyperglycemic state, predisposing individuals to the risk of opportunistic infections like mucormycosis (black fungus disease), according to doctors of Vikram Hospital, Bengaluru. About 400-500 patients have been detected with mucormycosis in Karnataka, due to which the disease has been declared an epidemic in the state.
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