A 5-year-old girl in Puducherry tested positive for Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) and is under close medical supervision.

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 ...

Public Health Principal Secretary Mary Muthoni, , emphasised the dangers of these products, warning that they could cause ...

China said on Sunday that it had seen a decline in human metapneumovirus (HMPV) among people in the north and in children ...

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 ...

Amid attention on human metapneumovirus (HMPV) due to an outbreak in China, Indian health experts stress the virus is not new. With effective testing and preventive measures, India is prepared to ...

One case of HMPV virus infection has been detected in the country, said the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research IEDCR. The infected patient is a woman who was admitted to the ...

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 ...