A virus causing cold-like symptoms is making its seasonal rounds, and health officials are urging everyone to take preventive ...

As fears rise following news of a surge in human metapneumovirus cases in China, the South African Health Department assures ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The WHO has downplayed concerns over a rise in HMPV cases, saying outbreaks are normal during winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday that it had maintained close communication with the World Health Organization ...

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 recent increase in cases of the human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in China has been misrepresented on social media as evidence ...