Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), which has been spreading in China, has now been reported in Indonesia. Experts say the virus is ...

Challenge trials help researchers study immune responses. Skeptics still doubt the approach is worth the risks ...

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 ...

Anson Mackay, who lives in London , initially contacted his GP in January 2020 after suffering a symptom he assumed was the ...

Recently, an 80-year-old man in Ahmedabad tested positive for human metapneumovirus (hMPV), adding to the growing cases of ...

Wild chimpanzees inhabit various environments in Africa, from dense tropical rainforests to more open woodland and savannah ...

For over a decade, scientists have studied the microbiome, the environment of microorganisms that live on and in the body, ...

Many new names sounded as if they’d been cooked up by a medieval monk. HIV-1 would henceforth be known as Lentivirus ...

However, hMPV is not new. It was first identified in 2001 and may have been circulating decades earlier, with recurring ...

HMPV is now recognized as one of the viruses responsible for "the common cold," usually causing mild symptoms such as a cough and a runny or stuffy nose. There is no specific treatment for HMPV and at ...

A virus causing cold-like symptoms is making its seasonal rounds, and health officials are urging everyone to take preventive ...