The virus poses a more serious risk to high-risk groups such as the elderly, young children, and individuals with chronic ...

Although most infections with hMPV are relatively mild, it can cause more severe disease in people with underlying medical conditions, such as heart disease. Complications can include pneumonia ...

"CDC is aware of reported increases of HMPV in China and is in regular contact with international partners and monitoring reports of increased disease. These reports are not currently a cause for ...

HMPV commonly circulates during respiratory virus season, experts say. Chinese health officials are reportedly monitoring an increase in cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV). There is currently ...

Chinese health officials have not confirmed that HMPV is what is driving hospitalizations in the country, and recent reports from China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicate the ...

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 discourse surrounding HMPV illustrates how perceptions of infectious-disease threats have become skewed in the aftermath of covid — particularly when images of sick people emerge from China.

An outbreak of a highly contagious virus in China has health officials on alert. Cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, which can lead to respiratory disease, are reportedly spiking in northern ...

Cases are typically most common in the late winter and spring, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There is no vaccine for HMPV. Like other similar viruses ...