New Delhi, Jan 6 || One more case of the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) has been detected in Gujarat on Monday, taking the tally to three cases in the country.
A two-year-old child was reported to be infected from Chandkheda’s area of Ahmedabad.
The child, from Rajasthan, was admitted to a private hospital in Chandkheda after showing symptoms of cold and cough. The child is stable now, reports quoted civic officials as saying.
This comes after the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Monday informed of two HMPV cases in two babies -- aged three- and eight-month-old -- in Bengaluru.
The HMPV infection was detected via routine surveillance in a 3-month-old girl and an 8-month-old boy in Bengaluru.
Both had a history of bronchopneumonia -- a form of pneumonia, a lung infection. Bronchopneumonia affects both the alveoli in the lungs and the bronchi.
"Both cases were identified through routine surveillance for multiple respiratory viral pathogens, as part of ICMR's ongoing efforts to monitor respiratory illnesses across the country,” the health ministry statement said.