{"id":33409,"date":"2021-06-22T20:11:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T01:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33409"},"modified":"2021-06-22T20:11:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T01:11:34","slug":"word-of-the-day-700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/22\/word-of-the-day-700\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mucormycosis<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\n            font--body\n            font-copy\n            color-gray-darkest\n            pb-md\n            mw-md ma-auto pr-sm pl-sm \">\u201cIt\u2019s a form of flesh-eating fungus that destroys tissues as it grows,\u201d said Akshay Nair, an oculoplastic surgeon treating mucormycosis patients in Mumbai. Before the pandemic, Nair would see 10 such patients in a year, but since January, he has treated nearly 100 affected patients. \u201cIf it involves the sinus, they have to be cleared. If it involves the eye \u2014 the eyeball, lids, muscles around the eye have to be removed, leaving behind the bare, bony socket.\u201d<em> [&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/interactive\/2021\/india-black-fungus\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F33f4cd4%2F60d20a139d2fdae3028a41b2%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F59%2F74%2F60d20a139d2fdae3028a41b2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The deadly black fungus striking India\u2019s recovering covid patients<\/a><em>,&#8221; <span class=\"gray-darkest b bb bc-gray bt-hover b-none\" data-qa=\"author-name\">Ronny Sen <\/span><span class=\"\" data-sc-v=\"4.27.3\" data-sc-c=\"authors\"><span class=\"font-xxxs gray-darkest font-xxs-ns\" data-sc-v=\"4.27.3\" data-sc-c=\"delimiter\"> and <\/span><\/span>Niha Masih, <\/em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><em>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m at a loss for words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mucormycosis: \u201cIt\u2019s a form of flesh-eating fungus that destroys tissues as it grows,\u201d said Akshay Nair, an oculoplastic surgeon treating mucormycosis patients in Mumbai. Before the pandemic, Nair would see 10 such patients in a year, but since January, he has treated nearly 100 affected patients. \u201cIf it involves the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/22\/word-of-the-day-700\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33410,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33409\/revisions\/33410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}