Posts falsely claim mystery disease outbreak, state of emergency in China
China has not declared a state of emergency. PolitiFact checked multiple Chinese and U.S. government websites and found no public health emergency announcements. One of the respiratory viruses social media posts are spotlighting is human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, which was discovered in 2001. It causes coldlike symptoms and most cases are mild.
New footage from inside hospitals in Wuhan, China, display worrying scenes as families are turned away and put on IV drips ...
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BEIJING: China is in the midst of a surge in cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, a common virus which can cause ...
An outbreak of human metapneumovirus in China has raised concerns of another widespread respiratory illness. HMPV has likely ...
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