BEIJING -- The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus, a development that raises the possibility ...

Half a decade after the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, China is now confronting a new viral outbreak, this time caused by the human metapneumovirus (HMPV). Reports and social media posts highlight ...

For the past several weeks, many around the world and here in the U.S. saw a mysterious virus spreading in the city of Foshan in Southern China’s Guangdong Province and couldn’t help but think, here ...

A post shared on Facebook claims cases of a “new” virus called HMPV Metapneumovirus are rising in China. Verdict: False The virus was discovered in 2001. Fact Check: China has recently seen an ...

China's top disease control official has said the country is formally considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines as a way of ...

They came for blood — and left behind something worse. Thousands of people in China have been infected with a painful mosquito-borne virus, triggering the country’s most aggressive public health ...

An outbreak of the chikungunya virus in southern China has prompted a strong government response as cases climb into the thousands. The disease, which is spread by mosquitoes, is most prevalent in the ...

Health officials in Guangdong province in southern China are waging an all-out war against mosquitoes in response to an outbreak of the chikungunya virus that's sickened thousands with fever, rashes ...