A question on #ViralDiseases tabled by Alicia Kearns on 06-01-2025 has been answered by Andrew Gwynne.

Heading: Viral Diseases
Question ID: 1752706
UIN: 22090
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-01-06
Asking Member ID: 4805
Asking Member display name: Alicia Kearns
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Alicia Kearns
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of human metapneumovirus have been identified in the UK.
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Date answered: 2025-01-09
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Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 1506
Answering Member display name: Andrew Gwynne
Answering Member handle: GwynneMP
Answering Member Twitter reference: @GwynneMP
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Answer text: The UK Health Security Agency’s long-term surveillance of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in England, through systems covering general practice surgeries and hospital laboratories, indicates that hMPV levels in winter 2024-25 are in line with what we would e...
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Answering body ID: 17
Answering body name: Department of Health and Social Care
Tweeted: true