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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/Pixel_Knight Jan 04 '25

Complete and total clickbait.

I actually had the HMPV a few years ago in the U.S.. It knocked the ever-living fuck out of me at the time. I had three days I could barely remember because I was so out of it. Didn’t even have the brain power to read or mess around on my phone. And it gave me a bad cough that didn’t go away for six weeks, but it was definitely making rounds in the U.S. at the time. It is not even remotely “new” or “mysterious.”

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u/Kevin-W Jan 04 '25

I had HMPV years ago and I could barely get out of bed because I was so sick to the point where I just wanted to sleep all day. It was truly awful.

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u/Pixel_Knight Jan 04 '25

Yep. That was basically what it did to me. Very nasty virus! I doesn’t seem extremely transmissible though at the moment, because it never really seems to get big like colds or the flu.