The human metapneumovirus (HMPV) has recorded a 'significant increase' in China and is now reportedly spreading to other ...

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Concerns surfaced in recent days over a surge in HMPV infections in northern China after images circulated online of ...

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.

China has rejected claims labeling China's recent Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) as an "unknown virus". Watch this report for ...

The rate of infections with the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in northern China is declining, a health official said ...

Amid global concerns, China on Sunday said that the cases of infections with the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) are declining. Wang Liping, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease ...

China said on Sunday that it had seen a decline in human metapneumovirus (HMPV) among residents in northern provinces and in ...

However, hMPV is not new. It was first identified in 2001 and may have been circulating decades earlier, with recurring ...

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.