flurona

English

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Etymology

flu + rona

Noun

flurona (uncountable)

  1. A rare double infection of influenza and COVID-19.
    • 2022 January 1, Joe Davies, “Israel reports first case of 'flurona': Doctors say they have found rare double infection of influenza and Covid in young pregnant woman”, in The Daily Mail:
      Her case is first documented in the world but doctors believe there could be more 'flurona' infections in the country.
    • 2022 January 1, Rhona Shennan, “What is ‘flurona’? Israel reports first case of double Covid and flu infection - is it a new variant?”, in NationalWorld:
      The woman who has been admitted to hospital with ‘flurona’ is pregnant and unvaccinated
    • 2022 January 1, Sravasti Dasgupta, “Israel reports first case of ‘flurona’ – rare double infection of Covid and influenza”, in The Independent:
      Israel has recorded the first case of a rare mixture of two diseases, influenza and coronavirus, dubbed “flurona”.
    • 2022 January 1, Leigh Mcmanus, Kathie McInnes, “Covid and flu mix dubbed 'Flurona' causes difficulty breathing”, in Stoke-on-Trent Live:
      The first case of Flurona – a mixture of coronavirus and flu – has been found in a young pregnant woman.
    • 2022 January 2, ToI staff, “‘Flurona’: Israel records its first case of patient with COVID and flu at same time”, in The Times of Israel:
      The identified case of “flurona,” as some have dubbed it, was relatively mild, according to doctors at Beilinson.
    • 2022 January 2, Pinaz Ahmed, “Israel records the first case of Flurona, a double inflection from coronavirus and influenza”, in Prag News:
      Amid the rising number of Omicron cases, Israel has recently detected another infection known as ‘Flurona.’ Flurona is a combined infection of coronavirus and influenza.
      As per the latest reports, health experts detected the first case of flurona in a pregnant woman.
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