Though the name HMPV is not well known in the ... it accounted for 1.4% of diagnostic tests submitted to the National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System, which is a voluntary ...

Now, that you know how to prevent the virus from entering ... to check if you are infected. Tests that can help you do so. The first method that is used for HMPV detection is the Nucleic Acid ...

but the virus is fairly common during the winter sickness season. In the Centers for Disease Control regions for New Jersey, ...

currently it doesn’t appear that there is a global risk from the virus. However, HMPV cases are also on the rise in countries ...

Seven people there have contracted the virus as of Tuesday ... According to the latest CDC data, HMPV accounts for less than 2% of weekly positive tests of respiratory viruses.

Though it is not new, it doesn’t have the name recognition ... to test for it. There is broad population-level immunity to this virus globally; there was none, for Covid. A severe HMPV season ...

Other methods, like antigen tests, can also identify the virus. HMPV enters the body through ... lot of interest because it is not a household name, but it was discovered in 2001, WHO spokeswoman ...

TWO babies have been hospitalised after testing positive for the HMPV virus in India as fears of ... The Chinese group said 30 per cent of these tests have come back as influenza.

Though it is not new, it doesn’t have the name recognition ... to test for it. There is broad population-level immunity to this virus globally; there was none, for COVID. A severe HMPV season ...