Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a COMMON, usually MILD, URTI virus.
It’s like a mini RSV. 
If you are worried about HMPV then you have not worked as a clinician on the wards for long.
Cases seem to stabilising in the UK and US at similar, or lower levels, as last year.
January data will confirm the trend.
Absent any new mutation I don’t think we are going to see a significant global risk to public health from HMPV.
Yet the lay press continues to worry the public.👇👇