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Daily Mirror
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Malvika Padin

Covid and flu mix: People with 'flurona' are more likely to die, new study warns

Covid has been the major threat to our health over the past two years. However, this doesn't mean that other illnesses like the flu don't exist anymore.

In fact, scientists have previously established that it's possible for people to get infected by Covid and the flu at the same time, in a co-infection termed as flurona.

A new study undertaken by the UK and the Netherlands has found, that patients infected simultaneously by flu and Covid are at higher risk of severe illness and death.

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