As China continues to monitor an increase in cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), here's what you need to know about the ...

Five years on from the first news of COVID, recent reports of an obscure respiratory virus in China may understandably raise concerns. Chinese authorities first issued warnings about human ...

Amid fears of another global pandemic, social media users are circulating claims that all schools in China have been closed ...

A common respiratory virus is making headlines in China, but health experts confirm it's not the next COVID-19. Learn why this seasonal surge of HMPV is different and what global health authorities ...

Human metapneumovirus (HMPV), a flu-like illness first discovered in 2001, is rapidly spreading, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Although officials have not ...

The rate of infections with the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in northern China is declining, a health official said, ...

Health officials have reported a rise in human metapneumovirus (HMPV) infections among children ages 14 and under in China, but the exact magnitude of this uptick is unclear.

HMPV is now recognized as one of the viruses responsible for "the common cold," usually causing mild symptoms such as a cough ...

and can circulate simultaneously with RSV and the flu during the respiratory virus season. Experts say the HMPV outbreak in China is not of major concern — it is neither a new, mystery illness ...

An outbreak of a highly contagious virus in China has health officials on alert. Cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, which can lead to respiratory disease, are reportedly spiking in northern ...

A viral outbreak in China sounds alarmingly familiar to 2019, back in the days before most of us had ever heard of the “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2”, better known as Covid-19.

Cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, a contagious virus that can lead to respiratory disease, is reportedly spiking in northern China. Infectious disease experts say risk to the U.S. is low.