The Chinese Health official said that the increase in recent years in the number of cases of the virus, first detected in the Netherlands in 2001, is due to better detection methods.
Although they share similarities in transmission and affected populations, such as children, the elderly, and ...
She said the spread of respiratory diseases would not be as serious as that in the previous winter. The World Health ...
The rate of infections with the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in northern China is declining, a health official said Sunday, amid some international concern over a potential ...
However, hMPV is not new. It was first identified in 2001 and may have been circulating decades earlier, with recurring ...
Another similarity to COVID: A case of HMPV can last about a week, with symptoms peaking around the third day, Dr. Hoy told ...
Much of the worry surrounding HMPV comes from concerns it is like coronavirus in 2019: a new virus that can cause severe ...
The WHO has downplayed concerns over a rise in HMPV cases, saying outbreaks are normal during winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
In China, reports of HMPV infections have indeed been rising in recent weeks in the more northerly regions. But so have ...
As respiratory illness season peaks, another virus is making its rounds—Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV). Often overlooked, HMPV ...
Reports of rising hMPV infections in China have attracted media attention, but experts say the virus poses low pandemic risk ...
A virus that's not well known to the public is spiking in China. CDC officials said HMPV is not a cause for concern here, nor is it a new virus.