The news of'black fungus' that hit India was delivered yesterday (28th). Although it is a rare disease, it is said that there is an outbreak in Korea.



What is this disease, also called hairy mildew?



[Won-Seok Choi/Professor, Department of Infectious Medicine, Ansan Hospital, Korea University: In the case of patients we have experienced, almost half of them die. If you lose



sight

or go further inside, you may die.]

Hairy fungus is a fungus commonly found in soil, manure, and rotten leaves.



[Won-Seok Choi/Professor of Infectious Medicine, Korea University Ansan Hospital: The path of infection is usually through the respiratory system.]



Healthy people are not infected, but



[Jae-Gap Lee/Professor of Infectious Medicine, Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital: Very invasive for those with uncontrolled diabetes or weak immunity. When the



hair fungus invades the body, nose bleeds, swelling around the eyes, and the skin turn black.



[Won-Seok Choi/Professor, Department of Infectious Medicine, Ansan Hospital, Korea University: This



does

not spread from person to person.]

But why is hairy mildew spreading rapidly in India? Steroid drugs were commonly used in India, where the number of new corona19 confirmed cases reached 400,000 a day.



[Won-Seok Choi/Professor of Infectious Medicine, Ansan Hospital, Korea University: The treatment is a steroid drug for severely corona 19 patients. (Steroid drugs) is a kind of immunosuppressant. However, if the use period of this (steroid



drug

) is prolonged or the dose is increased, the immune function is suppressed, which increases the risk of developing fungal infections.] In

India, medical facilities are poor and drugs are taken without a prescription. Because it was available, steroids were used indiscriminately.



[Yijaegap / Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital Infection Medicine Professor: it is not easy and the overall management of patients, and hospital also did not work, and now the ICU even more nopahyo likely shortage and yireomyeonseo occurred while management is not well -



hairy fungus increases are usually It is known that treatment is possible after 8 weeks of intravenous injection, but if it is not found early, the eye must be removed or the jawbone must be removed to prevent metastasis.



Experts advise that to prevent infection, it is the most important thing to keep your body healthy so that your body's immune function does not decline.



▶ A 50% mortality rate of infected people in Korea as well