Yes its lead story in the news todayHMPV: Worrying virus explodes in China
A debilitating respiratory virus has been detected in China with pictures of overrun hospitals causing alarm.
Pictures of hospitals being overrun with patients as a respiratory virus wreaks havoc in China has caused alarm in the West.Images have emerged on social media of patients in masks and parents holding sick children in a worrying reminder of the start of the Covid-19 pandemic five years ago.
China is currently experiencing a surge in flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV), especially among small children.
However it is unlikely to cause the same havoc as Covid which sparked multiple lockdowns in countries across the globe and left millions dead.
Dr Sanjaya Senanayake, infectious disease expert associate professor of medicine at The Australian National University, told Daily Mail it was “vital for China to share its data on this outbreak in a timely manner”, including “data about who is getting infected”.
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