Two years of barely being exposed to such bugs seems to have disrupted their usual patterns
“This year’s flu season started earlier than in 2017, and it seems to be tracking a similar kind of trajectory, with cases still going up,” said Dr Antonia Ho, a consultant in infectious diseases and clinical senior lecturer at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research.
However, influenza isn’t the only virus doing the rounds that can cause flu-like symptoms. Infections with respiratory syncytial virus are higher than normal, and, although babies and young children are at greater risk of hospitalisation and death, RSV can also trigger symptoms such as a bad cough and fever in adults.
Two years of barely being exposed to such bugs appears to have disrupted their usual patterns. Typically, a certain number of people will get infected each year, due to immunity from past exposure wearing off in adults, and a fresh batch of young children never having encountered them before.
A further complication is that some people may be infected with more than one virus – or a virus and a bacteria – at the same time. According to a study of hospital patients published inearlier this year, those who tested positive for Sars-CoV-2 and influenza were more likely to require mechanical ventilation, or to die, compared with those who only had Covid.
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