Brazil registered the first four cases of “flurone” in America

Brazil confirmed this Monday the first four cases of “flurone”, the simultaneous flu and coronavirus infection that I put the world on alert in the last days. These are the first infections of this type to be reported in America.

According to the health authorities, one of the cases was registered in Rio de Janeiro and the others three in the state of Ceará, according to the Folha de São Paulo newspaper and the Globo chain.

The case of Rio de Janeiro was detected in a test in a private laboratory with a 16 year old teenager, which received the attention of the health surveillance authorities.

”It is important to highlight that there are no published scientific studies that confirm the clinical or immunological implications of a joint infection; We are going to follow any case that is notified, ”said the Rio de Janeiro Health Secretariat.

The other three correspond to Coinfection cases reported in Fortaleza, the capital of Ceará. Is about two one year old babies that they already had the discharge and a 52 year old man that he did not need to be hospitalized.

The Ceará Health Secretariat reported that the variant of coronavirus that infected the three was unknown but all were contaminated by the H3N2 influenza. The Brazilian infectologist Leonardo Weissmann told the local press that it is impossible to know the severity of the double infection.

The “flurone” was reported for the first time days ago in Israel. A 30-year-old pregnant woman was detected, showed mild symptoms, despite the fact that she was not vaccinated against either condition.

Detection of the flurone was produced at Beilinson Hospital, in the city of Petah Tikva, Israel, where the patient recently gave birth and was discharged last Thursday.

Some local reports indicate that this was the first case in which both diseases were combined and detected, although it is possible that there are more similar double virus situations that have not yet been detected.

With information from Télam

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