An outbreak of a highly contagious virus in China has health officials on alert. Cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, which can lead to respiratory disease, are reportedly spiking in northern ...

Leading health experts have warned that the US is staring down the barrel of another pandemic as bird flu spirals out of control on US farms. So far, the H5N1 outbreak has affected nearly 1,000 dairy ...

Two of the closest known relatives to SARS-CoV-2 — a pair of bat coronaviruses discovered by researchers in Laos — may transmit poorly in people despite being genetically similar to the ...