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 ...

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

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 ...

Cast your mind back. The month is January, and there are early warnings about a respiratory virus originating in China. It ...

The Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday that it had maintained close communication with the World Health Organization ...

In China, reports of HMPV infections have indeed been rising in recent weeks in the more northerly regions. But so have ...

Reports of rising hMPV infections in China have attracted media attention, but experts say the virus poses low pandemic risk ...

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 ...