The virus poses a more serious risk to high-risk groups such as the elderly, young children, and individuals with chronic ...

Languages: English, French Bird flu (H5N1) has been transmitted from animals to humans in the United States, while HMPV cases are on the rise in China. Meanwhile, norovirus, a non-respiratory ...

HMPV commonly circulates during respiratory virus season, experts say. Chinese health officials are reportedly monitoring an increase in cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV). There is currently ...

Authorities in China said they are monitoring cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, after a reported increase inside the country, according to Reuters. Although cases are increasing at a rapid ...

The latest data shows another virus, known as HMPV, has also been spiking in some parts of the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously confirmed it was monitoring a ...

Human metapneumovirus, also known as HMPV, can cause upper and lower respiratory disease in people of all ages, and data from the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released last ...

But how worried should we really be? First things first: unlike Covid-19, what is happening in China is not a new virus, it is human metapneumovirus (HMPV), an “old” virus that was discovered ...

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According to the CDC, HMPV goes around during specific annual seasons in the U.S., beginning in the winter and lasting until, or through, spring. The CDC's National Respiratory and Enteric Virus ...