Reports of a respiratory disease called human metapneumovirus (hMPV) spreading in China have stoked fears and misinformation on social media. Some posts claimed that this is a new virus and that ...

Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is another in the catalog of respiratory viruses causing a stir. The virus peaked in spring, affecting a number of children and the elderly, per CNN. Most of the time ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.