2023-11-08 18:28:52
warn! The hMPV virus spreads during the late rainy season and early winter. Symptoms are similar to COVID-19, influenza, and some may even experience respiratory failure. Reveals that there is still no antidote or vaccine to prevent it.
8 Nov. 2023 Dr. Manoon Leechawengwong Specialist in respiratory diseases Vichaiyut Hospital has posted a warning regarding the outbreak of Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV), stating:
“The end of the rainy season to the beginning of winter. That is from the beginning of August – November. There has been an outbreak of Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) along with RSV.
Symptoms of this disease are similar to influenza, COVID-19 and RSV, including fever, body aches, cough, phlegm, mucus, tiredness, and difficulty breathing. Difficult to distinguish from other viruses You have to send it to a laboratory to be able to tell. Currently, testing for hMPV is easy by using a nasal swab and gives quick results, making this infection more common than ever before.
Commonly found in young children. and the elderly. The hMPV virus often enters the lower respiratory tract, bronchial tubes, and lungs in elderly people with chronic diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, and kidney disease, causing fatigue. Until needing to give oxygen Some people even have respiratory failure. There is no antiviral drug and no vaccine to protect once morest this virus. Provide treatment according to symptoms
A 72-year-old Thai male patient has high blood pressure, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease. Came to the hospital on October 24, 2023 with a lot of coughing, clear mucus, some sore throat, fatigue, difficulty breathing for 1 day, high fever, physical examination, temperature 39 degrees Celsius, abnormal sounds in the lungs. Leg slightly swollen, blood drawn, slight anemia. normal white blood cells Kidney function BUN 96 Cr 8.9 Blood oxygen level at fingertips very low 84%. Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) was found to give oxygen at a high flow rate through the nose (High-flow nasal cannula) and steroids. Later, he had to undergo dialysis. The lung x-ray got worse and then gradually got better (see picture). Tiredness and coughing gradually improved. He stayed in the hospital for treatment for 12 days. Finally, the lung x-ray was much better (see picture). He was able to go home and didn’t need to use oxygen.
The patient’s wife, aged 68 years, is healthy and was infected with hMPV from the patient on October 25, 2023, but had few symptoms, including a runny nose, sore throat, headache, some body aches, no fever, no cough, and recovered within 5 days.”
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