The intervening years have both sped and crawled by, too busy at times to take stock of all that has changed, too plodding to ...

Pictures of hospitals being overrun with patients as a respiratory virus wreaks havoc in China has caused alarm in the West.

Unlike COVID-19, human metapneumovirus has been around for decades, and we understand how it spreads and how to treat it.

After #Lockdown started trending, social media users shared humorous takes on how people might react to news of a virus ...

Authorities are advising people on how to avoid catching an illness once again amid reports of cases of HMPV - measures are ...

The pictures emerging are arresting: a hospital waiting room in Beijing, full of masked patients apparently attached to drips ...

Professor Paul Hunter from the University of East Anglia notes that almost every child contracts HMPV by five years of age, ...

Mark Zuckerberg has announced he is scrapping fact-checks on Facebook, claiming the labels intended to warn against fake news ...

It was this time five years ago we were all beginning to get acquainted with a new term: COVID-19. You know how the rest went ...

Authorities in Beijing have downplayed surge in cases, which comes five years after world was first alerted to emergence of Covid-19 ...

Key symptoms include a cough, fever, nasal congestion and fatigue, with some also experiencing a rash, shortness of breath or ...

Experts say China's rise in HMPV cases is “consistent with global patterns”. But how does the disease compare to COVID-19 and ...