It was on January 11, 2020 when health officials in the central Chinese city of Wuhan announced that a 61-year-old man had ...

The fifth anniversary of the first known death from Covid-19 passed seemingly unnoticed in China Saturday, with no official ...

The fifth anniversary of the first known death from Covid-19 passed seemingly unnoticed in China Saturday, with no official ...

The child is undergoing treatment at Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH) in Dibrugarh and is stable now, the officials said. HMPV, discovered in 2001, belongs to the Paramyxoviridae family. It ...

A CHINESE scientist at the centre of the Covid origins debate is still carrying out “risky” research on coronaviruses, ...

A surge in cases of HMPV (human metapneumovirus) has raised fears of another Covid-19 style pandemic after harrowing images ...

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 ...

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

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