{"id":661984,"date":"2026-10-22T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661984\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:46:08","slug":"france-reports-first-death-of-human-from-shamonda-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661984\/","title":{"rendered":"France reports first death of human from Shamonda virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2060French health authorities said they have detected the Shamonda \u200cvirus \u2060in a human for the first time in a \u200cpatient who \u2060later \u200cdied.<\/p>\n<p>But the authorities added \u2060they \u200csaw no risk to the general \u2060population at this \u2060stage.<\/p>\n<p>The virus is spread by biting midges and mainly affects cattle, sheep and goats.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the virus was detected in cattle samples from two farms in Co Cork, according to the Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>It said that this was the first time &#8220;this emergent virus has been detected in Ireland&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The disease is currently not notifiable in Ireland or the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2060French health authorities said they have detected the Shamonda \u200cvirus \u2060in a human for the first time in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-661984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}