Just when we thought we’d seen the back of widespread viruses.
, at its peak in mid-March of this year, positive tests were up 36% from the pre-pandemic seasonal peak of 7% test positivity., Dr John Williams, a paediatrician at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, says it’s “the most important virus you’ve never heard of” and that it’s one of the top three viruses most likely to put kids and adults into hospital and cause severe disease.
Unlike Covid-19 and the flu, though, there’s currently no vaccine for HMPV or antiviral medications to treat it. If you’re struck down with it, you’ll be treated in hospitals using normal pneumonia treatments.
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