As winter settles over Australia, it's not just the drop in temperature we notice—there's also a sharp rise in respiratory ...

News that northern China is seeing a surge of the respiratory illness called human metapneumovirus (HMPV), bringing an uptick ...

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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 ...

The most recent virus making waves is the human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC officials confirmed to USA TODAY that an uptick in ...

New Delhi — Indian officials have confirmed the vast nation's first cases of human metapneumovirus, often called HMPV, with seven people said to have contracted the virus as of Tuesday ...

The virus, identified as human metapneumovirus (HMPV), has seen cases spiking across northern Chinese provinces this winter, particularly among children. The outbreak comes five years after the ...

The forgotten burden of public health was finally being taken seriously. Human metapneumovirus, or hMPV, was first identified 24 years ago by a group of Dutch scientists seeking to better ...

Reports of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), a common respiratory illness that causes flu- and cold-like symptoms, are growing across the Northern Hemisphere, including in China, though neither the ...

When the cold and flu season hits, there’s a lot to worry about, and one infection that might fly under the radar is Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV). It is a respiratory infection that can lead to ...

First reported in children from the Netherlands in 2001. Retrospective studies have shown the presence of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in the human population from as early as the 1950s.