While 2021 followed the previous year’s trend of focusing on COVID-19 and coronavirus variations, 2022 began with a new name that is now part of the pandemic lexicon: Flurona. The name implies that it is a mix of influenza and a novel coronavirus, with patients becoming sick with both at the same time. People all over the world have been worried about since a lady in Israel was diagnosed with both at the beginning of January, and what it could imply for the world already battling COVID-19 and all its various variations.
Despite its name, Flurona is not a genuine fusion of COVID-19 and the flu that has combined to generate a super disease that could wipe out our species. Rather, is a phrase used to describe having both COVID-19 and the flu at the same time. It’s not just not a new sickness, but it’s also not a new phenomenon. Despite initial stories circulating throughout the world that a woman had both the flu and COVID-19, this was not the figurative Flurona patient zero.
It’s also not simply restricted to these two locations. Flurona cases had already been discovered in the United States, Brazil, Hungary, the Philippines, and even Israel before this latest research helped define the name, according to The Washington Post. According to Dr. Edsel Salvana of the Philippine Health Department’s technical advisory committee, the first COVID-19 death outside of China (which occurred in the Philippines) in early 2020 was due to co-infection, as reported by ABS-CBN. According to Salvana, this patient was a Chinese national who was infected with COVID-19, influenza, and Streptococcus pneumonia at the same time.
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