Should we worry about ‘flurona’?

As both diseases have similar symptoms, you will only know if you have a co-infection of Covid-19 and the flu if you get tested for them. — Positive Parenting

It is also known as multiple infection, concurrent infection, simultaneous infection and polymicrobial disease. Viruses constantly change through mutation due to various factors, thus resulting in many new variants.Other terms that may be used interchangeably with “variant” are “strain”, “subspecies” and “lineage”.To answer this question, we need to know how prevalent it is and how dangerous the possible outcomes or complications are.Firstly, Covid-19 and influenza co-infection cases are not new and have been recorded even before the term “flurona” was coined.

A systematic review published in June 2021 estimated that 4.5% of Covid-19 patients in Asia also had influenza.However, it should be noted that the numbers may be underestimated because a co-infection would only be identified if a patient was specifically tested for both viruses, which is unlikely if the patient was not hospitalised.

The most common symptoms experienced by people with Covid-19 and influenza co-infection are fever, cough, shortness of breath, muscle ache and breathing difficulty. However, there is still inadequate data to determine whether real-life cases will have more severe complications.And both have the same route of transmission, i.e. via respiratory droplets.

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