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 ...

Following a surge in cases overseas, find out more about HMPV including symptoms, how it spreads, UK cases and should we be worried.

Suriname has dismissed reports of a lockdown after the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (Caricom) country confirmed that it ...

Recently, there has been a lot of attention on the increase in cases of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China. Some are ...

Another similarity to COVID: A case of HMPV can last about a week, with symptoms peaking around the third day, Dr. Hoy told ...

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

Cases of the infection human metapneumovirus (HMPV) have caused some concern among experts amid rising levels in the UK and ...

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Human metapneumovirus cases have been on the rise in the UK following fears of a surge in northern China leading to Covid ...

Five years ago, China announced the first death from a new virus in Wuhan. Since then, Covid-19 has officially claimed more than seven million lives in an unrelenting march across the world.

Experts have detailed the unique symptoms of HMPV as one in 10 children in hospital with infection test positive ...