{"id":33641,"date":"2021-07-02T01:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2021\/jul\/01\/covid-perfect-storm-as-more-patients-hit-by-fungal-infections"},"modified":"2021-07-02T01:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:58:20","slug":"covid-perfect-storm-as-more-patients-hit-by-fungal-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33641","title":{"rendered":"Covid \u2018perfect storm\u2019 as more patients hit by fungal infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weakened lungs and immune systems make people increasingly vulnerable, warn scientists<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A rash of cases of a rare \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/21\/mucormycosis-black-fungus-disease-linked-covid-spreads-india\">black fungus<\/a>\u201d infection affecting thousands of critically ill Covid patients in India caused alarm last month. Now scientists are warning that other dangerous or even deadly fungal infections have spawned in critically ill coronavirus patients globally, including in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Fungi are ubiquitous \u2013&nbsp;in soil, water, air, faeces and human skin. Usually, people\u2019s elaborate, adaptive immune systems are enough of a repellent but when that shield is weakened by disease, congenital conditions or age, they are far more vulnerable to microscopic assailants.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2021\/jul\/01\/covid-perfect-storm-as-more-patients-hit-by-fungal-infections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weakened lungs and immune systems make people increasingly vulnerable, warn scientistsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA rash of cases of a rare \u201cblack fungus\u201d infection affecting thousands of critically ill Covid patients in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,2168,566,346,62,914,512,916,299,61,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-fungi","category-global-health","category-health","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33642,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33641\/revisions\/33642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}