Podcast: “Summer Flu — Do Air Conditioners Make You Sick?”

Headache, heavy limbs, a runny nose — right in the middle of holiday season. But is the air conditioner really the culprit?

In the latest episode of Frag die Medizin, the podcast produced by the Medical University of Innsbruck, Wegene Borena from the Institute of Virology Innsbruck explains why the “summer flu” is in fact a viral infection, and why we catch colds in summer at all. She also tackles common myths — like whether too much ice cream is to blame — and explains why hand hygiene matters just as much in summer as it does in winter.

Frag die Medizin is available on all major podcast platforms.