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Air pollution is a well-known risk factor for respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

and high infection rates, especially among children and older adults in China. HMPV causes upper respiratory infections with symptoms like cough and fever. It spreads through respiratory droplets ...

Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a respiratory virus that may not be on most folk’s radars, but it’s more common than you ...

Young children, older adults and people with weakened ... and are similar to other viruses that cause upper and lower respiratory infections," the CDC's website notes. HMPV is not new.

The human metapneumovirus (hMPV), which causes upper and lower respiratory infection in children and adults of all ages, is not a new virus. Despite the recent spike in cases, hMPV is not ...

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This study investigated regional differences in respiratory infection diagnoses in Poland to identify potential ambiguities in ICD coding and their implications for data comparability.

Five years after the first cases of COVID-19, reports of hMPV, an obscure respiratory virus in China may understandably raise ...

this reduces the severity of subsequent infections for older children and adults. In young children, hMPV most commonly causes infections of the upper respiratory tract, with symptoms including runny ...

First discovered in 2001, the HMPV belongs to the Pneumoviridae family, which also includes the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). Although the current trend of the HMPV outbreak in China seems ...