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

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 ...

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

Australian researchers engineered a new way to hinder the reproduction of disease-carrying mosquitoes using the TMT.

According to scientists who study diseases, the possibility of a fungal pandemic—the subject of science fiction TV shows like “The Last of Us,” could be more of a reality, thanks to climate change and ...

Researchers from Australia’s Macquarie University have developed a novel approach to combat these pests called the "toxic ...

Reports that cases of a flu-like virus called HMPV are rising in China have sparked concern, but experts have dismissed fears ...

A ny time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction.

How deadly is the bird flu? The US has reported its first death from avian influenza, H5N1. Here's what to know about bird ...

We’re monitoring the situation very, very closely. We’ve never seen this many infections of non-bird species as we have in the U.S.," Johns Hopkins virologist Andrew Pekosz said.

Ebola virus, one of the deadliest pathogens, has a fatality rate of about 50%, posing a serious threat to global health and safety. To address this challenge, researchers have developed the first ...