On social media, reports of a ‘flurona’ double infection of Covid-19 and influenza surfaced. They claimed that the infection had emerged in Israel and was severe. Healthcare experts, on the other hand, dismissed these reports, claiming that co-infections can happen to anyone.
Some social media posts discussed a ‘flurona’ infection in Israel, which users claimed was a Covid-19 and influenza infection. However, medical experts have now dismissed this, claiming that it is not a different thing.
“The contractions like ‘flurona,’ I think they’re very misleading to people. It presents the idea two viruses have somehow merged into one, which is not at all the case,” Dr Ellen Foxman, an immunologist at the Yale School of Medicine, told NBC News. “Somebody got a co-infection. People get co-infections all the time.”
Dr. Foxman is supported by other researchers as well. Dr. Guy Boivin, a clinical virologist in Quebec, explained that co-infection can result in one of three outcomes: little or no symptoms, severe illness due to simultaneous virus attacks, or one infection can block another.
The first case of ‘flurona’ was reported late in December in a pregnant woman admitted to the Rabin Medical Centre in Petah Tikva to give birth. According to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the young woman was not vaccinated.
Dr Nahla Abdel Wahab, a doctor at Cairo University Hospital, told Israeli media at the time that ‘flurona’ may indicate a major breakdown in the immune system because two viruses are entering the human body at the same time.
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