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Treatment is an IV drug called amphotericin B, followed by usually at least a year of oral antifungals at various different dosages.

As the family struggled to procure the amphotericin injections she needed after her hospitalization, the infection seemed to reach her second eye.

Drugs like miltefosine and amphotericin B, used to cure these strains of Leishmaniasis, are expensive or toxic, and not much funding goes into researching and developing better treatments.

Whether patients live or die often depends on how quickly they undergo debridement surgery that removes the fungus and then start a two-week course of amphotericin B.

With mucormycosis cases rising, India's health ministry said it was looking for more companies to produce the antifungal drug amphotericin B used to treat it and also increase imports of the medication.