Five years on from the first news of COVID, recent reports of an obscure respiratory virus in China may understandably raise concerns. Chinese authorities first issued warnings about human ...

Others comment, “Increasing cases of HMPV Metapneumovirus Infections among humans have been reported in China” and, opens new tab, “China declares a state of emergency as a surge of multiple ...

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In a statement Monday, the CDC said the agency is "monitoring reports of increased disease" in China as the country reportedly deals with rising number of HMPV cases. The reports are "not ...

China reports a rise in human metapneumovirus (HMPV) cases this winter, sparking regional concern. Improved testing capabilities have highlighted the pathogen as a key cause of respiratory illnesses.

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 ...

An uptick of a routine virus in China ignited dire headlines and social media posts, but public health experts caution that the human metapneumovirus cases are part of the typical ebb and flow of ...

But HMPV typically circulates in the Northern Hemisphere in winter, and China’s CDC data shows that there have also been rises in a number of other common respiratory infections, including the ...