Dikhyaa Mohanty 
After cases of black and white fungus or mucormycosis which has been worrying over the past weeks in India, recently a yellow fungus disease has been reported from Ghaziabad.
After been found the seriousness of the fungus, the central government has asked states to flag it as a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi director Randeep Guleria urged the people to refrain from categorising the fungal infections based on their colour and stated that the medical name of the disease should be used instead.
Labelling the same fungus with names of different colours can create confusion and neither is mucormycosis contagious nor is it a communicable infection. 90-95% of patients getting infected by mucormycosis were found to have been either diabetic or were using steroids during their Covid-19 recovery. There are several types of fungal infections like candida, aspergillosis, cryptococcus, histoplasmosis and coccidioidomycosis. Mucormycosis, candida and aspergillosis are the ones observed more in those with low immunity.
He advised people who develop warning signs of mucormycosis to immediately consult doctors. Some warning signs for mucormycosis such as headache, rusting or bleeding from the nose, swelling below the eye, lowering of facial sensation if observed in high-risk patients or those taking steroids should be informed to doctors so that early diagnosis and treatment can be given to the affected patients.
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