Virologist, professor, chief researcher at the Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after. Gamaleya Anatoly Altstein said that adults transmit metapneumovirus quite easily.
“It’s dangerous for babies, it’s dangerous for older people with chronic infections,” the expert said in an interview with OTR.
As Altstein noted, metapneumovirus is one of the causative agents of respiratory diseases that is not very common.
In turn, Honored Doctor of Russia, head physician of the Domodedovo Hospital Andrei Osipov, in a conversation with the online publication “Moscow Region Today,” recalled that metapneumovirus was first identified in the Netherlands in 2001.
“It causes colds in the form of runny nose, cough, laryngitis and bronchitis. Most often, children under three years of age and older people with chronic diseases get sick,” the expert said.
He added that metapneumovirus is treated with conventional antiviral drugs.
Earlier, Ivan Konovalov, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases in Children at the Institute of Motherhood and Childhood at Pirogov University, spoke in detail about the course of the metapneumovirus.
