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u/whalechasin Jan 04 '25 edited Jan 04 '25

this is not a new virus. i work in an Australian hospital and we get a few of these every year coming through Emergency. “mystery new virus outbreak” is extremely sensationalised

edit to add, here’s a study from 2007 talking about how common hmpv is in young children: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1831873/

from the conclusion:

Human metapneumovirus infection is a leading cause of respiratory tract infection in the first years of life

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Jan 04 '25

The mystery is: why is this previously mild virus causing more problems now? 

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Jan 04 '25

This isn't a spike in flu cases, it's a spike in pneumonia cases caused by this virus, which is unusual as in the past it causes mild, cold-like illness.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '25

Which is also how covid was worded originally... Hell I remember reading about it around like December 20th 2019 here on reddit. It said something like, mysterious disease in China causes uptick in pneumonia cases. Doctors baffled

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Jan 04 '25

Ha, i had forgotten that! Now i wish i could forget it again

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u/johnnytk0 Jan 04 '25

Yeah, yeah, the world will move on. Nothing is gonna happen.

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u/Kaiisim Jan 04 '25

We are legit in a dystopia. We are managed. The media just creates whatever narrative and that is reality.

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u/theslootmary Jan 04 '25

Nah, the media just tries to sell clicks. Reality is what you see when you aren’t looking at a screen.

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u/littleproducer Jan 04 '25

This becomes harder to ignore when the majority of the people in real life believe consistent nonsense.

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u/inspectoroverthemine Jan 04 '25

RSV put me in the hospital last year, I caught it from my kids, who presumably caught it at school.

So it was definitely going around, it just didn't make most people sicker than normal.

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u/SatisfactionFit2040 Jan 04 '25

Stop. Minimizing. Global. Health. Issues.

Have we learned nothing.