However, health authorities have so far ruled out that this virus represents a threat or is high risk.
“It is a virus that produces a flu-like illness that is not accompanied by high mortality. Unlike what happened with covid, it is a flu,” explained David Kershenobich, head of the federal Ministry of Health.
Separately, the Secretary of Health of Veracruz detailed this Friday that the case detected in the state presents mild respiratory symptoms: cough, runny nose and sore throat.
“It does not represent a serious risk to health nor is it a deadly strain and, although it is not new, since its identification, epidemiological surveillance protocols have been applied, especially during the winter season,” reported the local agency.
The Health Secretaries of Nuevo León and Sinaloa, Alma Rosa Marroquín, and Cutitláhuac González, respectively, also affirm that the cases in their states are not serious.
The human Metapneumovirus has attracted attention in recent days because several infections of this virus have been recorded in China, which was detected since 2001 in the Netherlands. But it is not a new virus.
