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France reports first human case of livestock virus Shamonda
French officials say the case appears isolated and pose no broader public health risk as investigators examine whether a midge bite caused the infection.
- On Thursday, French health authorities announced the first documented human infection with the Shamonda virus, involving a severely immunocompromised patient who died in early October.
- The virus typically spreads through Culicoides midge bites, primarily affecting livestock like cattle, and had only been identified in animals since its first European detection this summer.
- Investigators suspect the patient contracted the virus via a Culicoides midge bite in eastern France, where neurological complications observed before death were "very likely linked" to the infection.
- French officials notified the World Health Organization and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, stating there is "no health risk to the general public identified at this time."
- Experts emphasize the patient's serious underlying illness made them uniquely susceptible; this finding does not necessarily suggest significant risk to otherwise healthy individuals.
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The Ministry of Agriculture recalls that the situation in Spain is one of surveillance. A person dies in France because of the shamonda virus, which was thought not to be transmitted to humans.
The Shamonda virus was unknown to human medicine but not to veterinarians who identified it in the 1960s in Nigeria on infected cattle.
The Shamonda virus has been detected for the first time on a man. So far known to contaminate cattle, it does not pose any identified risk to the general population.
·Gennevilliers, France
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