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 ...

According to Dr Bir Singh Sehrawat, Head of Gastroenterology and Program Clinical Director at Marengo Asia Hospitals in Faridabad, HMPV is primarily a respiratory virus. Still, it also ...

First discovered in 2001, HMPV is a “common virus that circulates in winter and spring”, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). China and other countries in Asia have seen an uptick ...

Amid concerns surrounding the Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) virus, WHO official, Margaret Harris, said that the rise observed in the number of common respiratory infections, is 'common' during ...

“Health experts have clarified that HMPV is not a new virus. It was first identified in 2021 and has been circulating in the entire world since then," said J.P. Nadda, Union minister of health a ...

“In Asia, they are having a fairly large outbreak ... nearly 2 percent of diagnostic tests were positive for the virus. Last year HMPV peaked in April with about 8 percent of tests coming ...

There are fears that human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is spreading further across Asia after two sick babies were hospitalized and diagnosed with the virus in India. China earlier revealed it has been ...