“
Flurona”
is the name given to the simultaneous co-infection with influenza (“
flu
” in English) and the coronavirus.
Austria reports its first case, Swiss daily
Blick
reports .
This is the second confirmed "
Flurona
" case in the world, after Israel.
At the turn of the new year, a woman, pregnant and not vaccinated with the flu as with Covid-19, had been briefly hospitalized east of Tel Aviv.
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According to Austrian health authorities, this doubly infected patient is a young woman who has been vaccinated twice against Covid-19, but not against the flu.
Suffering from a cough and fever, she went to her doctor last week for a check-up.
His screening test detected both viruses, the newspaper
"Blick"
said .
The woman, who had a mild course of both viruses, is now healthy again, says the University of Vienna.
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