Five years on from the first news of COVID, recent reports of an obscure respiratory virus in China may understandably raise ...

A disease expert has urged China to share infection data amid an outbreak of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) which has spread ...

The scenes are eerily familiar - crowded hospitals in China overrun by masked patients seeking medical help as infection ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday offered reassurance about HMPV, a respiratory infection that is spreading in ...

China has not declared a state of emergency. PolitiFact checked multiple Chinese and U.S. government websites and found no public health emergency announcements. One of the respiratory viruses social ...

As China experiences a rise in respiratory infections this winter, one little-known virus has gotten a lot of attention – and ...

Have you seen reports about a “new” virus spreading in China? HMPV was first identified in 2001. Here are the symptoms it causes.

India confirmed its first cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) infections in children, with a total of seven cases reported ...

While cases are climbing in China, the situation is very different from what it was when Covid-19 emerged five years ago, ...

An uptick of a routine virus in China ignited dire headlines and social media posts, but public health experts caution that the human metapneumovirus cases are part of the typical ebb and flow of ...

HMPV is similar to the common cold for most people. Symptoms include a stuffy or runny nose, coughing, shortness of breath, ...