A surge in cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) has prompted some alarm and led to fears of a possible new pandemic

Huang Yanling was named as Patient Zero in early online reports shared widely throughout China in early 2020, when the magnitude of the deadly virus was first coming to light.

On Jan. 23, 2020, the Chinese government issued a travel ban for all residents of Wuhan, the epicenter of a novel coronavirus outbreak that would come to cause a pandemic.

The news comes after the CIA announced over the weekend that COVID-19 most likely originated from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2020.

The Central Intelligence Agency with a "low confidence" has changed its stance and concluded that it's likely the COVI-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic five years ago.

Several studies have said the virus originated naturally — but U.S. intelligence changed its assessment over the weekend.

The annual television extravaganza, which is tightly scripted to highlight Beijing’s priorities, rarely features American performers.

Ski coach Li Yue offers classes at Bonski, an indoor ski resort chain, in Wuhan. Li, 26, said the age ranges he sees are from 6 to 40, and are mainly either young people or women from Central China wanting to experience the sport for the first time.

The big three Chinese airlines have now brought the C919 into service, and here are the ten busiest routes for February 2025.

"The government cannot be a welfare program for everybody doing low quality, low credibility, irreproducible, low value of information research," says epidemiologist who supports reform of NIH "study sections.

Pharmaron, a Chinese biotech firm, is currently using hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to test pharmaceuticals on up to 300 beagles per week in Beijing, according to a federal contract