How dangerous is ‘flurona’ – a Covid-19 and seasonal influenza infection – as Omicron spreads?

People wearing face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease , walk on a street in Hong Kong on Nov 29, 2021.Israel recently reported its first case of a simultaneous Covid-19 and seasonal influenza infection, refreshing fears of a more such co-infections .

“It’s not that you get one and [these] are mutually exclusive and [you’re] not getting the other,” World Health Organization incident manager Abdi Mahamud said.Researchers around the world have considered the possibility of catching Covid-19 at the same time as other respiratory diseases since the pandemic began, and their findings have been well documented.

In Iran, researchers from the Alborz University of Medical Sciences found 79 such co-infections reported from December 2019 to September 2020. Both diseases cause similar symptoms, such as fever, cough, fatigue, sore throat, and muscle and body pain. University of Hong Kong virologist Jin Dong-Yan, however, said co-infections were not a big threat since they were relatively rare.

“Flu season has started in a lot of countries and we have seen a drop in flu vaccination. We can see the [disease] trend is going up,” WHO’s Mahamud told a virtual press briefing from Geneva on January 4.

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