German Influenza (FLU) Surveillance data — influenza

A subset of the weekly German influenza surveillance data from January 2020 to January 2025.

Usage

influenza_germany

Format

A data frame with 1,037 rows and 4 columns:

ReportingWeek: Reporting Week in "2024-W03" format
AgeGroup: Age groups: 00+ for all and 00-14, 15-59 and 60+ for age stratified cases.
Cases: Weekly case count
Incidence: Calculated weekly incidence

Source

License CC-BY 4.0: Robert Koch-Institut (2025): Laborbestätigte Influenzafälle in Deutschland. Dataset. Zenodo. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.14619502. https://github.com/robert-koch-institut/Influenzafaelle_in_Deutschland

Examples

library(ggplot2)

influenza_germany |>
  align_dates_seasonal(
    dates_from = ReportingWeek, date_resolution = "isoweek", start = 28
  ) -> df_flu_aligned

ggplot(df_flu_aligned, aes(x = date_aligned, y = Incidence, color = season)) +
  geom_line() +
  facet_wrap(~AgeGroup) +
  theme_bw() +
  theme_mod_rotate_x_axis_labels_45()