(NEXSTAR) — Respiratory illnesses are spreading throughout the U.S., causing multiple states to see a spike in hospital ...

The good news first: China's latest virus outbreak â the human metapneumovirus (HMPV) - is yet to travel to the United States and the American medical community is taking no chances this time. The ...

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

In the United States, HMPV cases have seen an increase since ... With HMPV back in the news, here's what you need to know about the virus and how you can protect yourself. According to the CDC ...

A viral outbreak in China sounds alarmingly familiar to 2019, back in the days before most of us had ever heard of the “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2”, better known as Covid-19.

HMPV is similar to a virus that is better known in the United States — respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V. It causes symptoms much like those associated with flu and Covid, including cough ...

The United States is reportedly seeing a surge in norovirus ... show hospitals and crematoriums overwhelmed in China amid a ...

Health experts told Newsweek about the threats posed by the viruses and shared the best ways to protect oneself.

Reports of a respiratory disease called human metapneumovirus (hMPV) spreading in China have stoked fears and misinformation ...

The virus peaks during late winter and spring, according to the United States-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. First identified in 2001 in the Netherlands, the disease is very common, ...

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 and ...

It’s been in the human population for a long time. It is a common virus that circulates in winter and spring.” In the United States, the CDC tracks cases of HMPV in the same way it tracks the spread ...