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

While cases are climbing in China, the situation is very different from what it was when Covid-19 emerged five years ago, ...

A Chinese director who made a film about the 2022 "white paper" demonstrations against China's COVID restrictions was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Shanghai court this week, his ...

As China experiences a rise in respiratory infections this winter, one little-known virus has gotten a lot of attention – and ...

The 2022 protests against Covid lockdown and subsequent crackdown on people marked a rare show of dissent in China ...

Although both HMPV and COVID-19 are different they do share some similarities. Both the virus can spread through respiratory ...

Images of mask-clad patients in Chinese waiting rooms are igniting a Covid-related trauma response. Here’s the how two ...

The Chinese cases are reported to be infections with human metapneumovirus, known to doctors as HMPV. Here is what we know: ...

The fear over the spread of HMPV virus that led to concerns if it will trigger Covid-19-like health emergency. Is HMPV same ...

China has not declared a state of emergency. PolitiFact checked multiple Chinese and U.S. government websites and found no public health emergency announcements. One of the respiratory viruses social ...

India TV’s claims that HMPV is a mysterious virus, or speculation that a new virus may have arisen out of China, are false.

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