HMPV vs Covid-19: Key differences and dangers
HMPV vs Covid-19: Key differences and dangers

HMPV virus is not a novel virus - it was first isolated in 2001 by Van den Hoogen and her colleagues in the Netherlands in the nasopharyngeal secretions of children with respiratory tract infections. The virus was named Human Metapneumovirus because it was a metapneumovirus that used humans as a...

WHO urges China to share Covid-19 origins data
WHO urges China to share Covid-19 origins data

The World Health Organization has urged China to share data to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan. On December 31, 2019, the WHOs China office noted a cluster of pneumonia cases in a statement from health authorities...

“Disease X” that probed after killing 79 people in Congo
“Disease X” that probed after killing 79 people in Congo

Mystical infectious disease outbreak Disease X sickened hundreds of people and killed at least 79, since late October in Congo, reports Bloomberg. After so many deaths, health officials of the Democratic Republic of the Congo expect to know within days the cause of the infectious Disease X....

Respiratory illness season intensifies, children at risk
Respiratory illness season intensifies, children at risk

Despite a relatively slow start to respiratory disease season, low vaccination rates threaten that trend and the rapid rise of some illnesses is already putting children at increased risk. Overall, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts that this season could be similar or...