Jalisco reports two cases of Flurona; there are 3 in Mexico

Jalisco reported this Sunday its first Flurone cases, simultaneous infection of flu and COVID-19. The patients were identified in the Laboratory for the Diagnosis of Emerging and Remerging Diseases (LADEER) of the University of Guadalajara (UDG), as confirmed by Alejandra Natali Vega Magaña, head of the area.

The presence of this coinfection the state coincides with the arrival of the variant omicron to Jalisco, where 95.5 percent of the tests have been positive for this new strain of coronavirus.

As we made known in Americanpost.news, the first case was detected in Nayarit, and according to the report of the State Health Secretariat, a patient was treated who gave positive to COVID-19 and influenza at the same time.

The head of the laboratory reported that the cases were identified thanks to the COVID FLU diagnostic kit developed together with the Genes2life company. He added that the patients did not present complications and they were treated on an outpatient basis.

Vega Magaña explained that until now there is little information on flurone or other co-infections, since not so

many cases have been reported in the world, however, he stressed that the first two cases in the state are stable.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the coronavirus and flu, or influenza are contagious respiratory diseases, but caused by different viruses. Among the main symptoms of flurone are fever, fatigue, muscle pain, cold, runny nose and sore throat, that is, symptoms of both viruses can occur at the same time.

In the last 24 hours, in Mexico there were 30,671 new infections of COVID19 and 202 deaths derived from this disease, according to data from the Ministry of Health. It should be noted that with the two new cases of Flurona in Jalisco, the number of co-infections increases to a figure.