{"id":108860,"date":"2021-05-26T17:10:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T11:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=108860"},"modified":"2021-05-26T21:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T15:33:55","slug":"first-case-of-yellow-fungus-detected-in-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/first-case-of-yellow-fungus-detected-in-up\/","title":{"rendered":"First Case of &#8220;Yellow Fungus&#8221; detected in UP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>A COVID-19 patient in Ghaziabad has been diagnosed with a <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wheat-varieties-susceptible-to-new-strains-of-yellow-rust-fungus-study\/\">Yellow Fungus<\/a> infection.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Yellow Fungus:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Yellow Fungus, also goes by its second name, mucor septic. It is a fungal infection that medical experts say generally does not occur in humans but in reptiles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Causes: <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Poor Hygiene<\/li>\n<li>High levels of humidity beyond the 30-40% range<\/li>\n<li>Old food and improper disposal also contribute to the growth of the fungus.<\/li>\n<li>Excess use of steroids is also a possible reason in Covid-19 patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms: <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Symptoms of yellow fungus are laziness, loss of appetite, or no appetite at all and weight loss.<\/li>\n<li>In serious cases, yellow fungus can also cause leakage of pus and slow healing of the open wound or necrosis in which cells in living tissue die prematurely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treatment: <\/strong>Antifungal drug Amphotericin-B is being considered as a primary treatment of yellow fungus. The same injection is being used currently to treat black or white fungus cases in the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Why is Yellow Fungus more dangerous than black and White Fungus?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Yellow fungus infections are not like <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/black-fungus-or-mucormycosis-declared-an-epidemic-by-rajasthan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black fungus infection<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-white-fungus-and-how-dangerous-is-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White Fungus infection<\/a>. Instead, they are much more dangerous as it starts off internally. 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A COVID-19 patient in Ghaziabad has been diagnosed with a Yellow Fungus infection. About Yellow Fungus: Yellow Fungus, also goes by its second name, mucor septic. It is a fungal infection that medical experts say generally does not occur in humans but in reptiles. Causes: Poor Hygiene High levels of humidity&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/first-case-of-yellow-fungus-detected-in-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Case of &#8220;Yellow Fungus&#8221; detected in UP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,7965,9],"tags":[1289],"class_list":["post-108860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-soc_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}