We must adopt a methodical and careful approach since we have gained a great deal of knowledge since the Covid epidemic, said Jaya Dantas, an international health professor at Curtin University.
In Australia. “We must get tested, protect our most vulnerable, stay at home and away from people, and wear masks in public.”
“HMPV can cause severe cases in young children, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems. It can spread to the lower respiratory tract and cause pneumonia.”
The increase in instances, however, “is not something that should cause undue concern,” according to some doctors. According to virologist Professor Jonathan Ball of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
HPMV has been known about since 2001 and has likely been in human circulation for much longer. Sadly, it is linked to pneumonia, especially in young infants, but this is luckily uncommon.
