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 ...

Even as the world fixates on hMPV, a genuine pandemic threat is emerging in the form of H5N1 bird flu. The virus has jumped ...

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

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