First was Covid, and now the HMP virus: how many more will it spread from China into the world and kill?

First was COVID-19, and now the HMP virus: how many more will it spread from China into the world and kill?

HMP virus in India: COVID-19 spread from China before, and now another virus is spreading from the same China, named Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV). It has been knocked in five countries, including India. Let us know how many viruses have spread from China to the world so far and how dangerous they were. How many people lost their lives due to them?

The devastation of the Covid-19 virus that had spread across the world from Wuhan, China five years ago has yet not been forgotten. That virus, which had forced the whole world to stay at home, officially took the lives of 71 lakh to 1.5 crore people and put a halt on life across the world for months. But now another virus is spreading from the same China—this time known as Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), and it has knocked in five countries, including India.

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It is said about the virus HMPV spreading from China that its symptoms are somewhat like common cold. Usually it causes coughing, wheezing, runny nose, or sore throat. Its infection can be serious in children and the elderly. The increasing infection of this virus has once again alerted the whole world.

There is nothing new about the spread of an infectious virus from China. Many dangerous viruses have spread all over the world from China itself. It is generally believed that China gave the world the most dangerous epidemic, but this is not the reality. Media reports said that it was China that thrust the world into a devastating epidemic like the plague or Black Death.

This epidemic had pushed Asia, Africa, and Europe to the brink of destruction between the years 1346 and 1353. The death toll of this is estimated to be around 75 to 200 million. Not only this, in the sixth, 14th, and 19th centuries, the big waves of plague, the epidemic that destroyed the masses all over the world, started from China itself.

If we talk about the last hundred years only, then due to China, pandemics have spread all over the world in the years 1918, 1957, 2002, and 2019. The Spanish flu, which spread from China to the whole world in the year 1918, caused great devastation. By the way, this pandemic spread when the world was busy discussing the First World War.

Then, due to all the censorship, it was not officially revealed how this pandemic spread. However, many reports and experts have been claiming that the Spanish flu also started in China.

It is claimed to be the deadliest pandemic of the entire century. For this reason, 20 million to 50 million people died worldwide. However, some reports suggest that the death toll is nearly 100 million. Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) relates that around 500 million people in the whole world, or nearly 30% of the global population at that time, were affected by this pandemic.

The world also met a horrible tragedy between 1957 and 1959. This epidemic named Asian Flu was titled as such as it originated in China, the country located in Asia, and traveled to the rest of the globe. Its rise can be compared to the loss of 20 lakh people’s lives worldwide within merely two years. Also, in the year 2002, another epidemic, SARS, wreaked havoc on an extreme scale. Similarly, this one also began its journey from China.

Then, in the last months of the year 2019, news started coming from China that a disease was spreading in the city of Wuhan, which caused chaos. In mid-December 2019, such pictures started coming, which showed that China had put the entire city of Wuhan under lockdown. There is a ban on anyone coming to or going from Wuhan. Still, China did not bother to inform the world about it.

This disease spread all over China and worldwide, which we know as Corona or Covid-19. It was considered so dangerous that to avoid it, countries around the world had stopped life in their respective places. According to the WHO in the year 2022, an estimated figure was published that stated that during the last two years, that is, 2020 and 2021, approximately 1.5 crore people had died because of the Corona virus or due to health effects caused by it.