Chinese authorities first issued warnings about human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in 2023, but media reports indicate cases may be increasing again during China's winter season. For most people, hMPV ...

With fears of a “new China virus” on the rise in India, Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda told the public on Jan. 6 that “HMPV is not a new virus.” “There is no reason to worry.

The human metapneumovirus, also known as HMPV, is reportedly surging in China, raising questions about what the illness is and if it's a concern to those in the U.S.. Officials in India have also ...

Cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) and other seasonal viruses are on the rise across the northern hemisphere in early 2025, according to the World Health Organization. While news reports and ...

Authorities in China said they are monitoring cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, after a reported increase inside the country, according to Reuters. Although cases are increasing at a rapid ...

As China continues to monitor an increase in cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), here's what you need to know about the illness. 24/7 Live San Francisco East Bay South Bay Peninsula North Bay ...

Overblown fears of HMPV cases in China reflect pandemic scars. Public health experts caution that the human metapneumovirus cases are part of the typical ebb and flow of respiratory virus seasons.

But hMPV, which causes respiratory tract infections similar to colds and flu, is not new in China or elsewhere in the world and, as of Jan. 9, Chinese officials have not declared any emergency ...

But HMPV typically circulates in the Northern Hemisphere in winter, and China’s CDC data shows that there have also been rises in a number of other common respiratory infections, including the ...

News of a respiratory virus spreading in China and footage of crowded hospitals have predictably led to panic, with concern that the human metapneumovirus (HMPV) may be COVID 2.0 for 2025.. Cases ...

Masked people walk through a station in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic, taken February 3, 2020, with an image of a virus inset. Reports of a possible outbreak of HMPV in China come five ...