Most people may have never heard of RSV, but it was first discovered in chimpanzees in 1956, and the virus regularly causes outbreaks in humans. It’s usually only serious in babies and older ...

Maybe it was really a quadruple-demic. A little known and underappreciated virus called human metapneumovirus spiked in the US this spring just after RSV, influenza and Covid-19 died down.

A virus that virtually nobody has ever heard of has spread across the United States, causing a 36% spike in cases in 2023, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Doctors say this is the most important virus you’ve never heard of. By Brenda Goodman, CNN; May 29, 2023 May 29, 2023 Updated May 29, 2023; 0; Facebook; Twitter; WhatsApp; SMS; Email; ...

Studies show that HMPV causes as much misery in the US each year as the flu and a closely related virus, RSV.One study of patient samples collected over 25 years found that it was the second most ...