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4 weeks 6 hours 4 minutes ago
11:00 PM
HMPV Outbreak LIVE Updates: Government advisory for HMPV - what not to do
To curb the spread of HMPV, the Karnataka government has provided key precautions for public awareness:
► Avoid public places if you exhibit symptoms.
► Do not share personal items such as towels or handkerchiefs.
► Avoid touching your face, particularly the eyes, nose, and mouth.
► Refrain from spitting in public spaces.
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4 weeks 6 hours 24 minutes ago
10:40 PM
HMPV Outbreak LIVE Updates: HMPV May Worsen UK`s `Quad-Demic` Crisis of Flu, Norovirus, RSV, And COVID-19
HMPV cases are also increasing in the UK, according to a government study. Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford, told the Science Media Centre, “It [HMPV] is one of the many viruses which circulate in the winter and add to the winter pressures on the NHS…The reports of respiratory infections in China in the past few days appear to be attributed to both influenza and this human metapneumovirus (HMPV), which is rather similar to the situation in the UK this week.
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4 weeks 6 hours 44 minutes ago
10:20 PM
HMPV Outbreak LIVE Updates: No Sudden Spike in Respiratory Cases, Confirms Puducherry
“There is no cause for concern, as the union territory has not experienced a sudden increase in respiratory cases. However, the territorial administration, in partnership with the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, is maintaining vigilant monitoring of the situation,” stated the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare Services of Puducherry in an official press release.
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4 weeks 7 hours 4 minutes ago
10:00 PM
HMPV Outbreak LIVE Updates: "HMPV is not highly transmissible," stated by Odisha Director of Public Health, Nilakantha Mishra
Odisha Director of Public Health, Nilakantha Mishra, on Tuesday said that no advisory has been issued by the state government in connection with the HMPV virus. Mishra also added that unlike Covid, the HMPV is not highly transmissible. As per reports, the Union Health Ministry has directed the state governments to strengthen and review surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI) and Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) following the detection of HMPV cases. As many as seven cases of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) infections have so far been detected in children in Bengaluru, Nagpur, Chennai, and Ahmedabad.