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Health concerns are growing amid a recent uptick in cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), bird flu, and norovirus, per Newsweek. With typical winter respiratory viruses, including influenza ...

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.

Other research has suggested that HMPV diverged from avian MPV about 300 years ago. Like all viruses, HMPV evolves over time. But its rate of evolution is relatively slow compared with some other ...

As head of one of the world’s only dedicated research labs focused on human metapneumovirus ... The US Has Bird Flu Vaccines. Here’s Why You Can’t Get One H5N1 vaccines have been previously ...

Even as the world fixates on hMPV, a genuine pandemic threat is emerging in the form of H5N1 bird flu. The virus has jumped to cows and spread across the country through dairy herds, poultry farms ...

A reported increase in cases of the respiratory virus human metapneumovirus (HMPV ... people — including Canadians — wondering Hif MPV could have similar impacts to COVID-19.

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 ...

Reports of a spike in HMPV cases in China may conjure eerie similarities to the early weeks of COVID-19, but public health experts say there are crucial differences — mainly that HMPV is a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring reports of a spike in human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China. HMPV, which was discovered in 2001, is common but underdiagnosed ...

A reported increase in cases of the respiratory virus human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China has caused alarm on social media. Photos and videos of crowded hospitals shared online have many people — ...