Flu wave 2025: rising infections and stable health situation!

Flu wave 2025: rising infections and stable health situation!

Niederösterreich, Österreich - The health situation in Austria and Germany is currently showing interesting developments in dealing with respiratory diseases. In Lower Austria there was a decline in flu cases among the insured persons of the Austrian Health Insurance Fund (ÖGK), with around 1,350 sufferers in the last week, which is a positive trend compared to almost 1,600 cases in the previous week. Virologist Lukas Weseslindtner from the Medical University of Vienna explains this with the different courses of the flu season that can fluctuate, and emphasizes that flu remains a serious illness. [ORF reported the situation and pointed out that the infection is influenced by various factors, including immunity in the population and the circulating virus types.]

In Germany, the situation looks a little different: A look at the current infection data reveals that around 1.9 million visits to the doctor were recorded due to respiratory diseases in the week from February 24 to March 2. The numbers indicate a stable location, although the flu incidence and the virus load have remained stable in the wastewater. [The analysis of news.de shows that corona infections, hospitalization and deaths in Germany are declining as a whole, while the incidence of flu and RSV remains constant.] This stability could indicate a starting calming down of health, even if the load caused by other respiratory infections is still high.

Current trend developments

While the flu wave in Austria seems to lose weight, the number of hospital in Germany is currently stable. According to the last surveys, the hospitalization incidence due to serious respiratory diseases is 0.29 - a value that has dropped in the past few weeks. Nevertheless, the burden on the emergency room is constant, with an average length of stay of 235 minutes - which indicates the sometimes continued high use of the health system. The health authorities continue to warn of the dangers of respiratory diseases and advise you to take a precise observation of the situations. [It remains crucial to continue to pursue the data in order to be able to evaluate the effects of these waves of infection.]