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

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has issued a statement assuring the public that there is no need to panic about the reported cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV).

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Friday that the scale and intensity of respiratory infectious ...

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

Routine mask usage isn’t necessary for HMPV. Masks are primarily protective in cases of aerosol-based spread which was the ...

China has identified a new strain of the monkeypox virus, Clade 1b, sparking fresh health concerns as the country battles the rising threat of the human metapneumovirus (HMPV). The latest development ...

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

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

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

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

China's Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday that while the rate of influenza virus in the ...

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.