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flurona en · NOUN

Etymology

From flu + rona.

Meanings

  1. (uncommon, uncountable) A double infection of influenza and COVID-19.
    • Her case is first documented in the world but doctors believe there could be more 'flurona' infections in the country. 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, archived from the original on 06 May 2026:
    • Israel has recorded the first case of a rare mixture of two diseases, influenza and coronavirus, dubbed “flurona”. 2022 January 1, Sravasti Dasgupta, “Israel reports first case of ‘flurona’ – rare double infection of Covid and influenza”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2022:
    • The first case of Flurona – a mixture of coronavirus and flu – has been found in a young pregnant woman. 2022 January 1, Leigh Mcmanus, Kathie McInnes, “Covid and flu mix dubbed 'Flurona' causes difficulty breathing”, in Stoke-on-Trent Live, archived from the original on 06 May 2026:
    • The identified case of “flurona,” as some have dubbed it, was relatively mild, according to doctors at Beilinson. 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, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2022:
    • The woman who has been admitted to hospital with ‘flurona’ is pregnant and unvaccinated 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, archived from the original on 28 May 2022:
    • In the 2022–2023 season, 162 (15.34%) adults responders vaccinated against the flu and 300 (28.41%) against COVID-19. We were surprised to see that despite the flurona threat, in the present 2022–2023 season, there were not many flurona vaccinated people. 2024 March, Adriana Malița Mădălina, Loredana Sabina Cornelia Manolescu, Viorel Ștefan Perieanu, Iuliana Babiuc, Elena Cristina Marcov, et al., “COVID-19 and flu vaccination in Romania, post pandemic lessons in healthcare workers and general population”, in PLoS One, volume 19, number 3, →DOI:
    • 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. 2022 January 2, Pinaz Ahmed, “Israel records the first case of Flurona, a double inflection from coronavirus and influenza”, in Prag News, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2022:

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