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

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 Hemisphere.

A top Civil Affairs Ministry official stressed new reforms must be rolled out over the next decade to be effective.

The Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday that it had maintained close communication with the World Health Organization on respiratory diseases, when asked about cases of the human metapneumovirus ...

Even though lung and related cancer deaths decreased in the world's 10 most populous countries from 1990 to 2019, these positive statistics do not address trends in mortality linked to tobacco use, ...

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 ...

China will continue to see multiple pathogens fueling its winter illness outbreak through spring, the country’s CDC said in December 2024.

Chinese health authorities said on Thursday they had detected the new mutated mpox strain clade Ib as the viral infection ...

China has detected the new mutated strain of the mpox virus, as the pathogen spreads to more geographies after the World ...

Cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, a contagious virus that can lead to respiratory disease, is reportedly spiking in ...