{"id":34016,"date":"2021-05-23T06:37:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T06:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34016"},"modified":"2021-05-23T06:37:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T06:37:57","slug":"black-fungus-india-reports-nearly-9000-cases-of-rare-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34016","title":{"rendered":"Black fungus: India reports nearly 9,000 cases of rare infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mucormycosis is a very rare infection. It is caused by exposure to mucor mould which is commonly found in soil, plants, manure, and decaying fruits and vegetables. &#8220;It is ubiquitous and found in soil and air and even in the nose and mucus of healthy people,&#8221; says Dr Akshay Nair, a Mumbai-based eye surgeon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-57217246\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mucormycosis is a very rare infection. It is caused by exposure to mucor mould which is commonly found in soil, plants, manure, and decaying fruits and vegetables. &#8220;It is ubiquitous and found in soil and air and even in the nose and mucus of healthy people,&#8221; says Dr Akshay Nair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/118620834_gettyimages-1233020070.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}