Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) causes respiratory infections, mainly affecting young children and the elderly. It is spread through respiratory droplets and can lead to severe complications.

While the symptoms of hMPV are similar to those of the common ... It binds to the mucosa of the nose and gains entry into the lungs. The incubation period can vary between 3 to 6 days.

People in the UK have been advised to avoid some medical settings and to wear masks in some hospitals and clinics after a rise in cases of a virus now as HMPV. Infections caused concern when there ...

Cases of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) are rising in the UK, weeks after images of packed hospital waiting rooms in China sparked alarm on social media. It was dubbed the “mystery virus” as ...

Human metapneumovirus (HMPV), although discovered in 2001, is making headlines after an unspecified increase in cases was reported in China. Although it has not been officially pronounced by local ...

Ghana has recorded one case of Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV). This is the first case detected since the country begun testing for human metapneumovirus hMPV in January 2025. Mr Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, ...

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.

(Background image: People wearing protective face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of HMPV in India/Right image: Prof Sarath Ranganathan, a Melbourne-based expert in respiratory ...

hVIVO plc (AIM: HVO), a fast-growing early-stage Contract Research Organisation (CRO) and the world leader in human challenge clinical trials, announces that, following the success of its pilot human ...