Human Meta-Pneumo Virus (HMPV)-China

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   DJ, trying to get more info on HMPV;
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-several-cases-of-human-metapneumovirus-hmpv-found-in-indonesia or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-several-cases-of-human-metapneumovirus-hmpv-found-in-indonesia 

DJ, Vietnam, India also "worried"...

https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/in-2021-new-hmpv-variants-emerged-in-spain-drove-disease-severity-yet-no-genomic-surveillance-of-what-is-happening-today or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/in-2021-new-hmpv-variants-emerged-in-spain-drove-disease-severity-yet-no-genomic-surveillance-of-what-is-happening-today 

DJ, Untill recent HMPV was believed to be of low risk-only a risk for young children, vulnerable groups...NOT likely to kill...However the last few years did see changes to HMPV ????

Again HMPV is a global issue-not only East Asia !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_metapneumovirus#Distribution_and_hosts or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_metapneumovirus#Distribution_and_hosts 

Though hMPV was first discovered and identified in 2001, serological studies showed that hMPV, or a close relative of it, had already been circulating for at least 50 years.^[6]^[47] From this information, it is clear that the virus had not just "jumped" from birds, or some other animal reservoir, to humans shortly before its discovery.^[6]
As of 2022, peak infection from hMPV in the northern hemisphere is in late winter and early spring, but it can be found globally across all continents^[47] and its distribution is very complex and dynamic.^[6] Researchers have found that hMPV is mostly localized and can differ significantly from community to community, allowing for the possibility of the strain in one location one year to be most similar to the strain in a different location the next year.^[6] 
This phenomenon has actually been recorded with the virus strains in Australia in 2001; in France in 2000 and 2002; in Canada in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002; in Israel in 2002; and in the Netherlands in 2001 all being very closely related based on their F gene sequences.^[6] There are at least two major genotypes of hMPV (A and B) that circulate during community outbreaks and each genotype has two of its own,^[6] but as of now, it seems that no one strain is dominant over the others and none of them are known to cause varying levels of severity.^[47]
DJ, So is HMPV-like Mpox-now acting differently then before ? 

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	DJ, trying to get more info on HMPV; https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-several-cases-of-human-metapneumovirus-hmpv-found-in-indonesia or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-several-cases-of-human-metapneumovirus-hmpv-found-in-indonesia DJ, Vietnam, India also "worried"... https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/in-2021-new-hmpv-variants-emerged-in-spain-drove-disease-severity-yet-no-genomic-surveillance-of-what-is-happening-today or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/in-2021-new-hmpv-variants-emerged-in-spain-drove-disease-severity-yet-no-genomic-surveillance-of-what-is-happening-today DJ, Untill recent HMPV was believed to be of low risk-only a risk for young children, vulnerable groups...NOT likely to kill...However the last few years did see changes to HMPV ???? Again HMPV is a global issue-not only East Asia ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_metapneumovirus#Distribution_and_hosts or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_metapneumovirus#Distribution_and_hosts Though hMPV was first discovered and identified in 2001, serological studies showed that hMPV, or a close relative of it, had already been circulating for at least 50 years.^[6]^[47] From this information, it is clear that the virus had not just "jumped" from birds, or some other animal reservoir, to humans shortly before its discovery.^[6] As of 2022, peak infection from hMPV in the northern hemisphere is in late winter and early spring, but it can be found globally across all continents^[47] and its distribution is very complex and dynamic.^[6] Researchers have found that hMPV is mostly localized and can differ significantly from community to community, allowing for the possibility of the strain in one location one year to be most similar to the strain in a different location the next year.^[6] This phenomenon has actually been recorded with the virus strains in Australia in 2001; in France in 2000 and 2002; in Canada in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002; in Israel in 2002; and in the Netherlands in 2001 all being very closely related based on their F gene sequences.^[6] There are at least two major genotypes of hMPV (A and B) that circulate during community outbreaks and each genotype has two of its own,^[6] but as of now, it seems that no one strain is dominant over the others and none of them are known to cause varying levels of severity.^[47] DJ, So is HMPV-like Mpox-now acting differently then before ?