FLORONA; A NEW COVID STRAND?
The first case of FLORONA was detected in the first of January, 2022 in an unvaccinated woman who was to give birth in a hospital in Petak Tikva city, Isreal.
Florona, unlike Alpha, Beta, Delta, Omicron and others, is not a mutant variant of coronavirus. It is a case of double respiratory infection caused by COVID-19 and influenza pathogens.
As for the World Health Organisation (WHO), an individual can suffer from both the infections at the same time and share identical symptoms like sore throat, cough, runny nose, fever, headaches and fatigue. And both conditions can be fatal if not treated on time.
Being the disease of the upper respiratory system, both flu and COVID are transmitted through aerosol particles contaminated with the virus released by an infected person while coughing, speaking or sneezing. When a healthy person breathes the air or touches the surface contaminated with the virus, the pathogens enter the respiratory system where it starts multiplying.
With a drop in the temperature, the risk of influenza (flu) has spiked, raising concern over double respiratory infection. Experts were worried about dual infections last year during the pandemic, but no such cases were reported. It could be due to the strict COVID norm and lockdown imposed in different parts of the world. Due to ease in the restrictions, the dual infection was possibly reported this year.
However, we cannot say anything with certainty about the long term complications and severity of florona as there is no information available yet. The condition has been recently reported and researchers of Israel have been trying to decipher more, so to have enough clinical orientation about the combined influenza infection.
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