Month: January 2022

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"Flurona," a portmanteau of flu and coronavirus, is a condition that is of concern to doctors because it involves people fighting dual infections at the same time. Dr. Matthew B. Laurens is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. (Courtesy University of Maryland School of Medicine)“Flurona,” a portmanteau of flu and coronavirus, is a condition that is of concern to doctors because it involves people fighting dual infections at the same time. It’s not something new and not uncommon for people to be co-infected with more than one different pathogen. But last flu season was atypically mild, and you’re likely to be hearing more about flurona as this year’s flu season ramps up. “In the case of influenza ...

At every stage in the pandemic, we’ve added new terms to our everyday vocabulary: coronavirus, COVID-19, social distancing, delta, omicron ... the list goes on and on. The latest grabbing international headlines is “flurona,” a term that describes people who are infected with both the coronavirus and influenza at the same time. Confirmed cases have popped up in the United States, Israel, Brazil and elsewhere. Wondering what it means for you? Here’s what you need to know. ‘Flurona’ isn’t actually new The term “flurona” may be new and catchy, but the phenomenon isn’t, as Raghu Adiga, chief medical officer at Liberty Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, pointed out in this Scientific American explainer. News reports that make it sound like a “nightmare” are blowing the whole situation out o...

U.S. health officials are raising concerns over an increase of rabies cases in humans after five people, including a child, died of the disease last year. Deaths in Idaho, Illinois, Texas and Minnesota happened after each person came in direct contact with rabid bats between late September and early November, according to a Thursday report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The fifth patient was bitten by a dog in the Philippines before returning to the U.S. There were more rabies cases in humans in a single year since 2011, CDC rabies experts Amber Kunkel and Ryan Wallace told USA TODAY, after no reported cases in 2019 or 2020. The uptick in cases may be due to a lack of awareness about the risks of rabies and what to do after potential exposure, the CDC said, because t...

Humboldt County Public Health reported today 107 new cases of COVID-19, bringing to 11,733 the total number of residents who have tested positive for the virus. Two new hospitalizations, two residents in their 60s, were also reported. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced yesterday it extended the statewide indoor mask mandate for an additional month for all public settings, regardless of vaccine status. The mask requirement will continue through Feb. 15, 2022, and is intended as an added layer of protection against the Omicron variant rapidly spreading through the state. Effective Wednesday, the quarantine and isolation guidance for asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic people with improving symptoms has been reduced from 10 to five days under specific conditions. Th...