{"id":8383,"date":"2025-01-07T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/771991817719873536-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:26:09","slug":"771991817719873536-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/771991817719873536-2\/","title":{"rendered":"771991817719873536"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/jan\/06\/what-is-human-metapneumovirus-cases-surging-in-china-hmpv\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/jan\/06\/what-is-human-metapneumovirus-cases-surging-in-china-hmpv\",\"title\":\"What is human metapneumovirus, are cases surging in China, and should we be worried?\",\"description\":\"Surging cases in northern China have prompted some online alarm but experts say the risk of another Covid-like pandemic is low\",\"site_name\":\"the Guardian\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"a198b6cc014cdbfa3f16541fcd35456f:ffb6401482372692-b5\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":630}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/jan\/06\/what-is-human-metapneumovirus-cases-surging-in-china-hmpv\" target=\"_blank\">What is human metapneumovirus, are cases surging in China, and should we be worried?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHMPV is not like Covid-19, in that it has been around for several decades and there is a level of immunity in the global population from past infections, the experts said. 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