After the Delta and the Omicron, the Flurona? Rest assured: this is not a new variant of the coronavirus, but a neologism invented by Israeli media at the end of December to designate the case of a hospitalized woman, both infected with Sars -CoV-2 and influenza virus. "
Flurona
" is indeed the contraction of the word "
flu
" (flu in English) and "
coronavirus
". In medicine, this well-known phenomenon is called coinfection. According to the Hebrew daily Hamodia, this would be the first officially identified case in the country.
On social networks, this announcement provoked reactions sometimes amused, sometimes disillusioned on the part of Internet users.
Others are worried about the appearance of a "
super-mutant
", the result of the fusion between Sars-CoV-2 and influenza virus.
What exactly is it?
1. What happened?
According to the Israeli daily Ynet, a pregnant woman presented last week to Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikval, a town on the outskirts of…
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