Why HMPV is not a scary virus

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If a child sneezes in China, will the whole world catch a cold? Worse still, will a new pandemic sweep across all countries to unleash deaths and devastation yet again? The fear psychosis created by recent reports on the human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a visceral reaction to memories of the terrible suffering when SARS-CoV-2 raced across countries. In the aftermath of Covid, juxtaposition of the words virus and China is enough to trigger alarm.

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