One young woman in her twenties was infected with the flu virus and Covid.
The woman tested positive for both viruses in Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva city, Israel, on Thursday.
Mild symptoms are evident. Israeli medical officials are currently studying the case and trying to figure out if her combination of medications causes more serious illness.
While her case was first reported in the international media, doctors think there might be other flurona infections.
A young pregnant woman in Israel has become the first person in the world to be infected with both Covid and the flu. Pictured: A woman receives her fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus, at the outpatient clinics of the cardiovascular centre at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, near the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv yesterday
Hamodia received the following information from Professor Arnon Vishnitser, the director of the Gynaecology Department.
“Both of our tests returned positive even though we double-checked.
It is the exact same disease. Both are viral infections that cause difficulties in breathing, since they both affect the upper respiratory tract.
On Thursday, the woman will be released.
Professor Vizhnitser said: ‘We are seeing more and more pregnant women with the flu. Dealing with pregnant women with the flu is always a difficult task.
Israel’s health minister yesterday said the country is extending its offer of a fourth vaccine dose to elderly people in care facilities.. Pictured: A man receives his fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus, at the outpatient clinics of the cardiovascular centre at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, near the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv yesterday
‘This is especially when you do not know if it’s coronavirus or the flu, so you refer to them the same. The majority of illness is respiratory.
It comes after Israel’s health minister yesterday said the country is extending its offer of a fourth vaccine dose to elderly people in care facilities.
Nitzan Horovitz announced Friday’s move citing the high level of exposure they have and their vulnerability to infections.
Israel already had extended fourth-dose rollouts to patients with compromised immunity. It was one of the first countries that did so to counter the Omicron strain’s surge in cases.
There is a sudden increase in cases in this country, more than 5,000 of them being recorded yesterday.