By late December 2019, Chinese doctors were already encountering patients with a SARS-like illness. Internal alerts circulated within hospitals, and multiple laboratories had begun analysing samples.

HMPV is now recognized as one of the viruses responsible for "the common cold," usually causing mild symptoms such as a cough ...

On December 31, 2019, a series of ‘pneumonia’ cases of unknown origin were reported in Wuhan, Hubei. The virus was later ...

A small cluster of cases — six with symptoms and six without — prompted an enormous response from officials in the city of Qingdao.

A 2022 Defense Department report long withheld by the Biden administration has recently surfaced and reveals that seven U.S. service members showed COVID-19-like symptoms after having competed in the ...

Five years after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, the World Health Organization is still reporting deaths from the virus. More than 3,000 people died in the last month, adding to the more ...

Human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus, the head of a Chinese government expert team says. The mysterious virus has killed a third person and has spread ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — An outbreak of the chikungunya virus in China has prompted authorities to take preventive measures, including mosquito nets and clouds of disinfectant, threatening fines for people ...