June 3, 2003

New Respiratory Virus Found in U.S. Kids

Yahoo! News:

A new virus continues to show up wherever investigators look for it -- and it isn't SARS. It's the human metapneumovirus (hMPV), which has now been discovered in American children. Researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine found that 19 out of 296 New Haven, Connecticut, children who had respiratory infections of unknown cause were infected with hMPV. Symptoms included wheezing, cough and fever.
Posted by Timothy Fredel at June 3, 2003 11:29 PM | TrackBack
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