Question follow-through · 22557
Viral Diseases: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to stop the spread of the HMPV virus from China.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to stop the spread of the HMPV virus from China.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2025
Answer published
Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is one of many viruses within the United Kingdom that cause illness each winter. It has been in circulation for many decades. Most people have been infected by the age of five and reinfection occurs throughout life. The UK Hea...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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