This is the second case of HMPV reported in Puducherry as a three-year-old child tested positive last week. Director of ...

Not many people had heard of human metapneumovirus, or HPMV, until a surge of recent cases in China made headlines.

A Chinese health official says the rate of infections with the flu-like human metapneumovirus in northern China is declining amid some international concern over a potential pandemic. Katherine Ward ...

Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has issued special instructions in response to the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), which caused panic in China and neighbouring countries, and has now been ...

A post shared on Facebook claims cases of a “new” virus called HMPV Metapneumovirus are rising in China. Verdict: False The ...

The CDC’s actions come in response to China’s government-run media confirming that positivity rates of HMPV hare rising in children under the age of 14, despite respiratory illnesses being ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In China, reports of HMPV infections have indeed been rising in recent weeks in the more northerly regions. But so have ...