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The respiratory illness is not new and has previously spiked in the U.S. too. China’s latest virus surge is the human metapneumovirus (HMPV), which has also seen spikes in the U.S.
It accounted for 27% of genetic sequences submitted to a global virus database called GISAID in the week that ended Dec. 3, up from 10% in the week that ended Nov. 19.
The HMPV seasonal outbreak in China, caused by respiratory syndrome human metapneumovirus (HMPV), began with an increase in cases in Beijing, China in December 2024.. It was brought to public attention when the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention published data showing that respiratory infections of human metapneumovirus had risen significantly in the week of 16 to 22 December ...
[21] [22] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 pandemic). [21] However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death ...
In early and mid-January, the virus spread to other Chinese provinces, helped by the Chinese New Year migration. Wuhan was a transport hub and major rail interchange. [205] On 10 January, the virus' genome was shared publicly. [206] A retrospective study published in March found that 6,174 people had reported symptoms by 20 January. [207]
[49] [50] The Reuters news agency reported that whilst it is not clear if the mpox cases in the refugee displacement camps were caused by the new clade Ib variant of the virus, the WHO's spokesperson Margaret Harris said South Kivu is already an area where the new virus variant is known to be circulating. [50]
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday its analysis of samples from the first severe case of bird flu in the country last week showed mutations not seen ...
Testing of patient swab samples by polymerase chain reaction revealed clade II of monkeypox virus, [1] which is the less deadly of the two known monkeypox virus variants with a case fatality rate of around 1%. [68] The genomic sequence of the virus associated with this outbreak was first published on 19 May by Portuguese researchers. [69]