China said on Sunday that it had seen a decline in human metapneumovirus (HMPV) among residents in northern provinces and in children under 14, amid international concern over a potential pandemic.

A potential new pandemic — that’s been the topic of discussion for The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is ...

Cases of the Human Metapneumovirus, HMPV, have significantly increased across northern Chinese provinces in recent days, mainly among children. The country’s centre for disease control has ...

Chinese officials and a WHO spokesperson ... Missing context. The human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is not new in China or elsewhere in the world, its recent spike in China is within the usual range ...

Chinese health officials have not confirmed ... so people have some immunity against this human metapneumovirus." HMPV is a virus that can cause upper and lower respiratory disease in people ...

“The human metapneumovirus is not a new virus, and has been with humans for at least several decades,” said Wang Liping, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and ...

HMPV is now recognized as one of the viruses responsible for "the common cold," usually causing mild symptoms such as a cough ...

Human metapneumovirus, or hMPV ... levels of child immunity in the country had dipped as a consequence of the Chinese government’s “Zero Covid” policies, which saw restrictions on social ...