Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a virus responsible for causing common cold belongs to family pneumoviridae. It typically causes mild illness for majority, but in rare cases it can seriously affect vulnerable individuals. Young children, especially those under the age of two and the elderly, are the most susceptible to the virus. It transmits via contagious respiratory droplets that travel through the air from an infected individual to others. This indicates that an individual can acquire the virus when near a sick person or while sharing an enclosed space with them. It can also be transmitted by then direct or close contact with contaminated secretion which may involve aerosol (large particle) droplets, fomites.
Symptoms of HMPV:
