The Missouri Attorney General’s Office is taking China to trial over claims it hoarded masks and other gear during the ...

Visitors look at large masks at GENTLE MONSTER eyewear store in Shanghai, China,0, 2025.

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

The WHO has downplayed concerns over a rise in HMPV cases, saying outbreaks are normal during winter in the Northern ...

(AP Photo/Andy Wong) Journalists wearing face masks film a speech of Wang Liping, a researcher for the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention during a press briefing by the National Health ...

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 ...

Health experts and hospitals in China have downplayed reports by international media about rising HMPV cases overwhelming ...

People walk in Beijing on Jan. 6, 2025, wearing masks amid spreading respiratory ... 2024, in Shanghai, China. VCG via Getty Images The Chinese government appeared to push back claims that HMPV ...

The pictures emerging are arresting: a hospital waiting room in Beijing, full of masked patients apparently attached to drips; crowds of mask-wearing commuters making their way through the city. If it ...