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2023-06-01 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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The 'Most Important Virus You've Never Heard Of' Surged This Spring
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[Epoch Times] Human metapneumovirus, or hMPV, has risen across the United States this winter and spring, according to recent data published by the U.S. CDC. The percent of tests positive for hMPV increased 19.6 percent for antigen and 10.9 percent for PCR tests at the start of March, when the virus surged this year, the CDC data shows. Around the same time, the percentage of positive COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, stood at 7 percent and 2 percent, respectively.
Did the CDC forget to report on covid, or has it finally disappeared?
The virus, discovered in 2001, can cause upper and lower respiratory disease, but it especially impacts older people, young children, and those with compromised immune systems, according to the CDC. It says that cough, fever, nasal congestion, and shortness of breath are the primary symptoms.
Maybe, just maybe, it has been confused with covid?
 But it noted that "clinical symptoms of HMPV infection may progress to bronchitis or pneumonia and are similar to other viruses that cause upper and lower respiratory infections. The estimated incubation period is 3 to 6 days, and the median duration of illness can vary depending upon severity but is similar to other respiratory infections caused by viruses."
I wonder how that virus responds to the common covid tests, like the ones the government was giving away?
The virus causes generally mild symptoms for most people and goes away on its own, without any need for additional treatment.
More like the common cold, except with a fever.
Dr. John Williams, a pediatrician at the University of Pittsburgh, said that hMPV isn’t well-known and claimed it is "the most important virus you’ve never heard of." And blood tests, he said, show that most children have had it before the age of 5.
RSV, influenza, and hMPV are " the three major viruses," he told CNN. "Those are the big three in kids and adults, the most likely to put people in the hospital and cause severe disease, most likely to sweep through nursing homes and make older people really sick and even kill them."
COVID-23, anyone?Gitcher new trial vaccine here! 
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