Assurance from National Health Commission comes amid fears of surging respiratory illness, with disease expert citing slowing ...
Experts say HMPV is unlike COVID-19 in that it has been around for decades and there is some built-in immunity to it.
Wang Liping, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, emphasised that HMPV is not a new virus ...
Concerns about HMPV surged recently after images of crowded hospitals in northern China circulated online. However, the World ...
She said the spread of respiratory diseases would not be as serious as that in the previous winter. The World Health ...
Beijing has made a fresh rebuke to some voices labeling China's recent cases of infection with human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, as an "unknown virus", calling such claims "run counter to basic ...
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 ...
HMPV is now recognized as one of the viruses responsible for "the common cold," usually causing mild symptoms such as a cough and a runny or stuffy nose. There is no specific treatment for HMPV and at ...