{"value":{"id":1752707,"askingMemberId":4805,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-01-06T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-01-09T00:00:00","uin":"22091","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) his international counterparts and (b) the World Health Organisation on human metapneumovirus.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":1506,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-01-09T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has had no recent communications from the World Health Organisation or other countries in relation to human metapneumovirus (hMPV).</p><p>UKHSA’s long-term surveillance of 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 expect to see at this time of year.</p><p>Healthcare data for hMPV and other respiratory viruses is routinely published on the UKHSA dashboard, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href=\"https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-viruses/other-respiratory-viruses\" target=\"_blank\">https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-viruses/other-respiratory-viruses</a></p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Viral Diseases","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1752707","method":"GET"}]}