“Cocktail” of viruses: Influenza on the upward push – “It is going to dominate till the top of March”

Viruses and infections are at their zenith right through this era, with influenza being the dominant illness, whilst the phenomenon is anticipated to proceed for a while to come back.

“Influenza prevails”

The president of EINAP, Matina Pagonis, spoke at MEGA, announcing that “nowadays it’s the flu, the flu dominates all over the place. After all it was once the vacations and we had bonded a bit of extra, we have been indoors a large number of other folks and it was once anticipated for us. This may cross till the top of March.”

On the identical time, he emphasised that, “high-risk teams that experience now not been vaccinated, will have to cross and get vaccinated. With the vaccine, you get via with very delicate signs, you do not cross to the clinic to be handled, you are taking your antivirals if you want them and also you take a seat at house. The circumstances that experience come to the clinic, maximum have been unvaccinated and have been aged with underlying illnesses.”

Actually, he discussed that those incidents are hospitalized as a result of they have got grow to be a complication.

What about metapneumovirus?

“Coronavirus isn’t on the upward push, we wish to explain that. As for the brand new virus, the metapneumonia virus, as a result of they ask us, the proportion is round 2%. Right here in Greece, we have no explicit issues. The place panic is going on is in Europe, it has began.”

“Its signs are like flu, cough, runny nostril, fever, weak point, diarrhea. What are we petrified of him too? Headaches, pneumonia and bronchitis. The virus makes a speciality of two teams extra, on youngsters beneath 5 and adults over 65 with underlying illnesses,” argued Ms. Pagoni.

Flu certain

In keeping with the weekly file of the EODY the positivity for influenza in the neighborhood (as estimated via the PHY Sentinel surveillance community) stays above the edge indicating the start of seasonal influenza process (10%), appearing an building up in comparison to the former week.

All over the week of 02/2025, 24 new critical circumstances with hospitalization in ICU and 3 new deaths from laboratory-confirmed influenza have been recorded.