Amid rising concern around respiratory illnesses in India, several state governments have raised surveillances and issued ...

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 ...

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 is it a new virus.

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

Cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) and other seasonal viruses are on the rise across the northern hemisphere in early 2025 ...

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 ...