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  • Influenza wave runs over Austria

    ' We stand at the moment at the beginning of an influenza wave. ' Thus the situation summarized on Tuesday of the leaders of the Departments for virology of the medical university of Vienna, Franz X. Heinz, in Austria. In Vienna as well as in Graz and in Innsbruck the development of the sick person's figures would point upwards. In Vienna these were according to the newest information of the health centre of Tuesday afternoon last week about 9,900 new illnesses in Influenza and grippalen infections - after about 8,900 in the preceding week.

    Not only the figures from Vienna, also information of the Austria-wide Influenza network point in the trend according to Heinz upwards. ' In the large part of the entries (in tests to be examined of patients, n.) is viruses are to be proved A (H1N1) ', said the expert. Besides, it concerns viruses of the type from the pork influenza-Pandemie which spread out in 2009/2010 about the whole world. Besides is rife in Austria still A (H3N2) virus.

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