It’s been five years since the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in the United States, following its discovery in Wuhan, China ...

The pictures emerging are arresting: a hospital waiting room in Beijing, full of masked patients apparently attached to drips ...

Authorities are advising people on how to avoid catching an illness once again amid reports of cases of HMPV - measures are ...

It was this time five years ago we were all beginning to get acquainted with a new term: COVID-19. You know how the rest went ...

The intervening years have both sped and crawled by, too busy at times to take stock of all that has changed, too plodding to ...

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

The illness is "typically mild", said The Independent, but it can lead to "severe complications such as pneumonia, ...

COVID-19 has continued to claim lives at an average rate of about 900 deaths per week in the U.S. over the past year.

China has responded after the World Health Organization ( WHO) again urged it to disclose data that could shed more light on the origins of COVID-19, which killed over 7 million people worldwide.

Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn’t have a name, nor did the illness it would cause. It wound up setting off a ...