Arcos City Hall announces suspected case of Covid-19 and influenza infection | Midwest

According to the municipality’s secretariat, he received the vaccine against the emerging corona virus, but he was not vaccinated against the flu. He is in solitary confinement showing mild flu symptoms. The concurrent infection was dubbed “Fluoron”. Understand below.

• Understand what double contamination with COVID and influenza is
• Flu or covid-19? Experts explain the differences in symptoms and forms of infection

the g 1 I called the State Department of Health (SES-MG) and reported the folder in note There is no confirmed case of Covid-19 and influenza in Minas Gerais, yet. SES-MG also reported that six suspected cases are under investigation. Details of the notifications under investigation will be disclosed in due course, if confirmed.

The volume highlighted the importance of maintaining health protocols for both Covid-19 and influenza: Regular hand washing, mask use, social distancing and immunization.

municipality Arcos I also released a video with the instructions. a look:

According to the municipality, the epidemiological bulletin, Thursday (6), indicated that the cases of Covid-19 virus infection reached 6,503 cases, including more than 117 cases in the past three days, after they passed a period without daily cases.

With regard to influenza cases, after analyzing data on care at the Covid-19 outpatient clinic, an 185% increase in demand for service in the city was identified – a comparison between the first and third week of December. And in the last week of 2021, three positive cases of “influenza A” were identified in the city.

So-called double contamination is checked when both tests – for influenza and Covid-19 – are positive. she was nicknamed “Florona” (the union of the terms “influenza”, from influenza, with “rona” from coronavirus) in the international press, but the term does not refer to a new type of disease, only a simplified way of indicating that the contamination occurred simultaneously.

in topics, g 1 He explains what double contamination is, what care should be taken and whether it can aggravate the patient’s condition:

• What is that?
• Is double pollution normal?
• Can a patient with this condition suffer from a deterioration in his health?
• How do you protect yourself?
• How can I find out if I have double infection?

What is double pollution?

It happens when both tests – for influenza and Covid – come back positive. Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Ciara have already confirmed double cases.

Is double pollution normal?

Renato Kfoury, an infectious disease and director of the Brazilian Society of Immunization (SBIm), explains that the presence of double contamination (by two viruses) is not uncommon. “When we have two epidemics at once, the chance of both viruses being positive is positive,” he says.

However, a person hardly gets infected with the two viruses. The infection specialist explains that it is necessary to separate co-infection from co-discovery.

Methods for identifying viruses in our body, such as the polymerase chain reaction test, are very sensitive. They easily detect parts of the virus that do not necessarily cause infection or disease in the individual. This common finding is very frequent, but it does not mean that the two viruses are running in the body,” says the infection specialist.

Can a patient with this condition suffer from a deterioration in his health?

It is still not possible to say whether the patient will have a worse health condition. Kfoury explains that it can harm the health of people who are already immunocompromised, but in general, double contamination doesn’t mean you have a more serious condition.

Jamal Suleiman, an infectious disease specialist at Emilio Ribas Hospital in São Paulo, recalls that the vaccine is very important to prevent the serious condition of both diseases. “If you are vaccinated, the risk of developing severe forms of these diseases is remote. If you are not vaccinated, you will go with the flow and take risks, whether with one virus, two or three viruses.”

Mirianne Dal-Ben, an infectious disease specialist at Sirio Hospital Lebanon, explains that double infection neither increases the chances of death nor makes illnesses lighter. “The important thing is that people need to know that we still don’t have anything in the science that tells us that taking both things at the same time increases a person’s chances of death or makes the disease milder.

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