As fears rise following news of a surge in human metapneumovirus cases in China, the South African Health Department assures ...

However, hMPV is not new. It was first identified in 2001 and may have been circulating decades earlier, with recurring ...

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

HMPV is now recognized as one of the viruses responsible for "the common cold," usually causing mild symptoms such as a cough and a runny or stuffy nose. There is no specific treatment for HMPV and at ...

An expert has warned that the new virus currently spreading in China could reach "other parts of the world." The human ...

China has detected the new mutated strain of the mpox virus for the first time, as the pathogen spreads to more geographies ...

A virus that's not well known to the public is spiking in China. CDC officials said HMPV is not a cause for concern here, nor ...

A recent increase in cases of the human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in China has been misrepresented on social media as evidence ...

Cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, a contagious virus that can lead to respiratory disease, is reportedly spiking in ...

While rumors now circulating in Central Asia may be overblown, there appears to be some basis for public concern about the spread of the HMPV. Health officials in both Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have ...

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

In a statement released Tuesday, the World Health Organization summed up the situation: ...