Thousands In India Infected By Rare 'Black Fungus' With 50% Mortality Rate

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Thousands In India Infected By Rare 'Black Fungus' With 50% Mortality Rate

May 28, 2021 Lauren Frayer

Thousands of Indians recovering from COVID-19 have come down with a rare fungal infection that's killing 50% of its victims. Doctors have had to remove patients' eyes and jawbones to save them.

India has been battling the world's biggest and deadliest COVID-19 outbreak. On top of that, another health crisis is unfolding. Thousands of Indians have come down with a rare fungal infection just as they are recovering from COVID-19. It's being called the black fungus, and it's been killing up to half of the people it infects. NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from Mumbai.

npr.org/2021/05/28/1001378013/thousands-in-india-infected-by-rare-black-fungus-with-50-mortality-rate

 

[pcosmar]

Got it from the swabs up their nose..
https://www.outlookindia.com/websit...ng-behind-the-outbreak-of-black-fungus/383370
Death rate in India is Deliberate.

Nuremberg Trials 2.0

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Got it from the swabs up their nose..

Then such tragic outcomes are result of medical malpractice? This is not even mentioned in NPR article featured in US media headlines.

Thousands of Indians recovering from COVID-19 have come down with a rare fungal infection that's killing 50% of its victims. Doctors have had to remove patients' eyes and jawbones to save them.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Then such tragic outcomes are result of medical malpractice? This is not even mentioned in NPR article featured in US media headlines.

Are Nasal Swabs Used In Covid Testing Behind The Outbreak Of Black Fungus?

https://www.outlookindia.com/websit...ng-behind-the-outbreak-of-black-fungus/383370

Experts working in Covid wards in top government hospitals specialising in infectious diseases have made some startling revelations to Outlook -- the reason for the spread of Mucormycosis or black fungus among many Covid-19 recovered patients could be contaminated nasal swab used during testing.

Mucormycosis is a fungus that floats in the environment or rests on many objects. It can infect only those whose immunity is weak due to illnesses. It can enter the body through several means. For instance, through inhalation or consuming fungal-infected food or coming in contact with any such object etc. It can cause substantive harm to the organ and cause death too. Experts say that about 60 percent of patients admitted to the hospital for the treatment of this black fungal disease neither took steroid or were on oxygen support during Covid-19 treatment.

After observing several such patients, they are of the view that the insertion of a swab (a cotton ball) in the nose during the RT-PCR test could be one of the main reasons for the outbreak of this fungal disease.

They say that on questioning, these patients said that they underwent RT-PCR tests multiple times to find out if they are Covid positive or not. This has made the doctors believe that it could be due to swabs. In western countries like the UK and the USA, these swabs are sterilised before use, through gamma radiation, however, in India, there is no quality control on their production and handling.

 

[pcosmar]

Then such tragic outcomes are result of medical malpractice? This is not even mentioned in NPR article featured in US media headlines.

Easy to search...
and Deliberate Medical Malpractice seems to be the New Normal.

 

[jmdrake]

Got it from the swabs up their nose..
https://www.outlookindia.com/websit...ng-behind-the-outbreak-of-black-fungus/383370
Death rate in India is Deliberate.

Nuremberg Trials 2.0

Then such tragic outcomes are result of medical malpractice? This is not even mentioned in NPR article featured in US media headlines.

Are Nasal Swabs Used In Covid Testing Behind The Outbreak Of Black Fungus?

https://www.outlookindia.com/websit...ng-behind-the-outbreak-of-black-fungus/383370

Experts working in Covid wards in top government hospitals specialising in infectious diseases have made some startling revelations to Outlook -- the reason for the spread of Mucormycosis or black fungus among many Covid-19 recovered patients could be contaminated nasal swab used during testing.

Mucormycosis is a fungus that floats in the environment or rests on many objects. It can infect only those whose immunity is weak due to illnesses. It can enter the body through several means. For instance, through inhalation or consuming fungal-infected food or coming in contact with any such object etc. It can cause substantive harm to the organ and cause death too. Experts say that about 60 percent of patients admitted to the hospital for the treatment of this black fungal disease neither took steroid or were on oxygen support during Covid-19 treatment.

After observing several such patients, they are of the view that the insertion of a swab (a cotton ball) in the nose during the RT-PCR test could be one of the main reasons for the outbreak of this fungal disease.

They say that on questioning, these patients said that they underwent RT-PCR tests multiple times to find out if they are Covid positive or not. This has made the doctors believe that it could be due to swabs. In western countries like the UK and the USA, these swabs are sterilised before use, through gamma radiation, however, in India, there is no quality control on their production and handling.

And this is why we don't need government run healthcare. Consider this. Even though there is research on the NIH website, suppressed by Dr. Fauci, that simple steam treatment may be 100% effective in curing COVID in 24 hours, government doctors from India "warn" that such treatments might be "harmful."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680040/
https://m.timesofindia.com/city/ben...alation-prescription/articleshow/78687072.cms

But government run hospitals in India are so messed up that some of them are rat infested and the rats chew on newborn babies.

https://www.news18.com/news/india/r...in-indore-hospital-probe-ordered-3748361.html
https://m.timesofindia.com/city/hyd...-government-hospital/articleshow/48689801.cms

Don't treat yourself at home. Take a FrankenFauci vaccine and get bit by rats.

 

[ClaytonB]

Should have wore masks...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

With so much nasal swabbing going on in less than ideal circumstances, some contamination was inevitable.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Then again, it may have nothing to do with swabs...

Mucormycosis is one of an array of ferocious fungal diseases that have attacked COVID patients, including a lethal yeast called Candida auris and a spate of infections with Aspergillus fungi that have earned the acronym CAPA (for COVID-associated pulmonary aspergillosis).

These fungal infections arise after a COVID diagnosis, which seems to be a clue. A standard component of treatment for severe cases of COVID is high doses of corticosteroids, anti-inflammatory drugs that damp down the immune system’s overreaction to infection. Steroids save lives, but they simultaneously make a patient more vulnerable to attack by whatever bacteria or fungi are already in their body or hanging around their environment.

“Fungal spores are everywhere, but we are pretty efficient at clearing them from our lungs,” says Arturo Casadevall, a physician and molecular microbiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “But COVID damages the lung. So then you have a double whammy: reduced capacity to naturally clear the spores and reduced immune response as a result of steroids.”

That collision of factors is complicated by something else. Years before COVID appeared, researchers in Australia and Europe, as well as India, all reported that mucormycosis seemed particularly ferocious in patients with uncontrolled diabetes. That is setting Indian COVID patients up for disaster. “Even in rural areas, every eighth adult aged 30 and beyond is diabetic,” Kalantri says. “Most have suboptimal control of sugar. When these patients test COVID-positive, they often are prescribed high-dose steroids, often in the first week. Irrational and unscientific treatment of COVID is extremely common.”
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/...k-fungus-is-ravaging-covid-patients-in-india/

 

[Firestarter]

I guess that this could have absolutely nothing to do with these experimental COVID vaccines that have preceded this outbreak...
At least no vaccination is mentioned in the NPR piece.

For more than a year I have been expecting a second "pandemic" (with a much higher fatality rate than COVID) being staged on top of the coronavirus hysteria, but I guess this ain't it.

 

[Working Poor]

If you know anyone in India send them this also, listen to it yourself if you have dandruff, athletes foot or, candida. You can play it in your bathroom or anywhere you smell or, can see mold growing. I put it on a loop and play it in all of the rooms and closets of my home for at least an hour a couple of times per year or anytime I can smell or see mold growing. I end up playing this a lot because I have had candida fungus growing in my own body and it is not too unusual for me to smell mold when I go out. There are many other videos capable of destroying fungus on youtube I like this one best I also went to their down load site Patreon and down loaded it to my computer as well. I also have a preset for mold on my own frequency generator but this one still works better as they do have much more advanced equipment than I do and I am sure that is why even their "free" one below works better.

 

[Working Poor]

I guess that this could have absolutely nothing to do with these experimental COVID vaccines that have preceded this outbreak...
At least no vaccination is mentioned in the NPR piece.

For more than a year I have been expecting a second "pandemic" (with a much higher fatality rate than COVID) being staged on top of the coronavirus hysteria, but I guess this ain't it.

The spirit of Dr Frankenstein is hard at work screwing with nature so beware and be ready.

 

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Then again, it may have nothing to do with swabs...

Mucormycosis is one of an array of ferocious fungal diseases that have attacked COVID patients, including a lethal yeast called Candida auris and a spate of infections with Aspergillus fungi that have earned the acronym CAPA (for COVID-associated pulmonary aspergillosis).

These fungal infections arise after a COVID diagnosis, which seems to be a clue. A standard component of treatment for severe cases of COVID is high doses of corticosteroids, anti-inflammatory drugs that damp down the immune system’s overreaction to infection. Steroids save lives, but they simultaneously make a patient more vulnerable to attack by whatever bacteria or fungi are already in their body or hanging around their environment.

“Fungal spores are everywhere, but we are pretty efficient at clearing them from our lungs,” says Arturo Casadevall, a physician and molecular microbiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “But COVID damages the lung. So then you have a double whammy: reduced capacity to naturally clear the spores and reduced immune response as a result of steroids.”

That collision of factors is complicated by something else. Years before COVID appeared, researchers in Australia and Europe, as well as India, all reported that mucormycosis seemed particularly ferocious in patients with uncontrolled diabetes. That is setting Indian COVID patients up for disaster. “Even in rural areas, every eighth adult aged 30 and beyond is diabetic,” Kalantri says. “Most have suboptimal control of sugar. When these patients test COVID-positive, they often are prescribed high-dose steroids, often in the first week. Irrational and unscientific treatment of COVID is extremely common.”

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ents-in-india/

Above factors appear bit more plausible than swabs from what little I know about fungi and immune system, poor health and medical conditions could be compounding factors. Just speculating.

Are Nasal Swabs Used In Covid Testing Behind The Outbreak Of Black Fungus?

https://www.outlookindia.com/websit...ng-behind-the-outbreak-of-black-fungus/383370

Experts working in Covid wards in top government hospitals specialising in infectious diseases have made some startling revelations to Outlook -- the reason for the spread of Mucormycosis or black fungus among many Covid-19 recovered patients could be contaminated nasal swab used during testing.

Mucormycosis is a fungus that floats in the environment or rests on many objects. It can infect only those whose immunity is weak due to illnesses. It can enter the body through several means. For instance, through inhalation or consuming fungal-infected food or coming in contact with any such object etc. It can cause substantive harm to the organ and cause death too. Experts say that about 60 percent of patients admitted to the hospital for the treatment of this black fungal disease neither took steroid or were on oxygen support during Covid-19 treatment.

After observing several such patients, they are of the view that the insertion of a swab (a cotton ball) in the nose during the RT-PCR test could be one of the main reasons for the outbreak of this fungal disease.

They say that on questioning, these patients said that they underwent RT-PCR tests multiple times to find out if they are Covid positive or not. This has made the doctors believe that it could be due to swabs. In western countries like the UK and the USA, these swabs are sterilised before use, through gamma radiation, however, in India, there is no quality control on their production and handling.

Easy to search...
and Deliberate Medical Malpractice seems to be the New Normal.

 

[oyarde]

I am not a MD but from a common sense perspective you can observe someone giving these nasal swabs ( who also is not a MD ) and tell no good could possibly come from that. Guess thats why I run things around here at my place and I dont have the black death .

 

[pcosmar]

Just speculating.

Well,, there is a lot of that..
the question to ask is ,, How many people were getting Black Fungus prior to the Nasal Swabs?

From my understanding it was rare and is now an Outbreak.
any other Common denominators?

 

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Covid News: India’s ‘Black Fungus’ Crisis Spreads

June 20, 2021
The number of so-called black fungus cases in India shot up to more than 30,000 from negligible levels in just three weeks. The deadly disease has sickened former coronavirus patients across the country, and doctors believe that hospitals desperate to keep Covid-19 patients alive made choices that left them vulnerable.

The mucormycosis epidemic adds even more urgency to the difficult task of protecting India’s 1.4 billion people, only a fraction of whom have been vaccinated against the coronavirus. They remain vulnerable to a third wave and the consequences that could follow.
“Mucormycosis will tail off and go back to baseline as the Covid cases subside,” said Dr. Dileep Mavalankar, an epidemiologist. “But it may come back in the third wave unless we find out why it is happening.”
Many doctors in India think they know why. The bone-and-tissue-eating fungus can attack the gastrointestinal tract, the lungs, the skin and the sinuses, where it often spreads to the eye socket and the brain if untreated. Treatment for the disease involves complex, often disfiguring surgery and an uncommon and expensive drug, contributing to a mortality rate above 50 percent.

Mucormycosis is not passed from person to person. It develops from commonplace spores that sometimes build up in homes and hospitals. Doctors believe India’s crowded hospitals, and their dire lack of medical oxygen, left the fungus an opening.
Without enough oxygen, doctors in many places injected patients with steroids, a standard treatment for doctors battling Covid globally. Steroids can reduce inflammation in the lungs and help Covid patients breathe more easily.

Many doctors prescribed steroids in quantities and for durations that far exceed World Health Organization recommendations, said Arunaloke Chakrabarti, a microbiologist and the co-author of a study examining the causes of India’s mucormycosis outbreak. Those steroids may have compromised patient immune systems and made Covid patients more susceptible to fungal spores.
The steroids may have also dangerously increased blood sugar levels, leaving people with diabetes vulnerable to mucormycosis. It could also increase the chance of blood clots, leading to malnourished tissue, which the “fungus attacks,” said Dr. Bela Prajapati, who oversees treatment for nearly 400 patients with mucormycosis.
Desperate doctors may not have had the chance to ask patients whether they had diabetes or other conditions before resorting to steroids.
“Doctors hardly had any time to do patient management,” Dr. Chakrabarti said. “They were all looking at how to take care of the respiratory tract.”

nytimes.com/live/2021/06/20/world/covid-vaccine-coronavirus-mask