Medical Must-See: Toddler’s tiny injury leads to rare fungal infection

The 'exceptional' case shows that even immunocompetent patients can contract mucormycosis, her doctors report.
The patient’s right-sided periorbital edema, erythema, proptosis, and conjunctival chemosis.

A minor eye wound turned into a major infection for a 15-month-old girl from Pakistan, who developed potentially lethal mucormycosis despite nothing to suggest she was immunocompromised.

She had fallen from her bed and sustained a small cut near her left eye, initially dismissed as a minor injury.