An outbreak of the chikungunya virus in the manufacturing hub of Foshan near Hong Kong has prompted Chinese authorities to ...

"It might be US Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!" says Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Twitter.

Latest news and updates on the impact of a new strain of coronavirus on mainland China. The first cases of the virus, which causes the disease Covid-19 and has killed more than 3,000 in China, were ...

Scientists in China have linked a virus to cases of a condition that can cause permanent blindness, known as persistent ocular hypertension viral anterior uveitis, or POH-VAU. They found evidence of ...

Beijing, Jan 29 (PTI) China has started screening of travellers arriving on flights from areas where the Nipah virus outbreak has been reported, including India. Swab tests were being conducted on ...

A mosquito-borne virus spreading in parts of southeast China is triggering a COVID-style response there. Cases of the ...

The National Health and Research Council defines Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) as “a respiratory virus that causes a mild ...

A shrimp virus called CMNV has jumped into humans, causing a new eye disease linked to handling and eating raw seafood. The virus is already global.

The federal public health agency says it believes Canadians are at low risk of contracting a new type of pneumonia that has killed one person and made dozens sick in central China, but it has issued a ...

Handling seafood with bare hands or eating it raw said to increase risk of exposure to pathogen first found in shrimp A virus found in shrimp and fish may cause an eye disease in humans, according to ...