Five years on from the first news of COVID, recent reports of an obscure respiratory virus in China may understandably raise concerns. Chinese authorities first issued warnings about human ...

As China continues to monitor an increase in cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), here's what you need to know about the ...

HMPV has circulated in humans for decades. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen covers global health. Reports of a surge in cases of a respiratory virus in China have evoked dark echoes of the start ...

China is experiencing an outbreak of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), a respiratory illness that is making waves amid a global uptick in infections this winter. Unlike the coronavirus that caused the ...

and can circulate simultaneously with RSV and the flu during the respiratory virus season. Experts say the HMPV outbreak in China is not of major concern — it is neither a new, mystery illness ...

The rate of infections with the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in northern China is declining, a health official said, ...

HMPV infections are spreading in China while cases of flu-like disease have also been found in India and the UK.

An uptick of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) cases in China has raised concerns over another pandemic, which appear to be ...

The WHO has downplayed concerns over a rise in HMPV cases, saying outbreaks are normal during winter in the Northern ...

Amid fears of another global pandemic, social media users are circulating claims that all schools in China have been closed ...

A viral outbreak in China is raising concerns reminiscent of 2019, but this time the focus is on human metapneumovirus (HMPV) ...

The human metapneumovirus (HMPV) has recorded a 'significant increase' in China and is now reportedly spreading to other ...