Mumbai: Ek 6 months ki baby Mumbai mein Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) ka 8th confirmed case bani hain. Yeh Maharashtra ka teesra case hai. Baby ko 1 January ko severe cough, chest tightness, aur 84% tak oxygen levels ke kam hone par hospital admit kiya gaya. Achhe se paanch din ki treatment ke baad use discharge kar diya gaya.
Maharashtra mein pehle ke cases Nagpur se hain, jahan ek saat saal ki aur ek 13 saal ki bacchi ko HMPV hua tha. Baaki confirmed cases Karnataka (2), Gujarat (1), aur Tamil Nadu (2) se hain.
Is situation ke light mein, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, aur Bihar jaise kai rajyon ne public se shaanti banaye rakhne ki appeal ki hai. Mizoram ne HMPV ke spread par nazar rakhne ke liye ek committee banayi hai, aur Gujarat ke teen shahar—Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, aur Rajkot—mein civil hospitals mein isolation wards set up kiye gaye hain.
China mein HMPV ke badhte cases ke response mein, central government ne rajyon ko respiratory illnesses, khaaskar Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) aur Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) ki surveillance badhane ki salah di hai. Public ko HMPV ke transmission ko rokne ke bare mein educate karne par bhi zor diya gaya hai.
2001 mein discover hua, HMPV ek well-researched respiratory pathogen hai jo duniya bhar mein circulation karta hai, aur yeh mukhya roop se bachchon ko prabhavit karta hai.
