{"id":662144,"date":"2026-10-22T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662144\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:22:11","slug":"first-human-case-of-shamonda-virus-is-reported-in-france-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662144\/","title":{"rendered":"First human case of Shamonda virus is reported in France \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/france\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/france\/\">France<\/a> on Thursday reported the first human case of the Shamonda virus usually found \u200cin livestock in a patient who later died, with authorities adding there was no risk to the general population \u200bat this stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Transmitted by biting midges and most commonly found in cattle, Shamonda has also been found in horses, alpaca, sheep and goats, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe European Centre for \u200bDisease Prevention and Control is carefully monitoring the situation after the French authorities announced the first ever reported \u2060human infection with Shamonda virus, a disease that has until now only affected \u200canimals,\u201d \u200cthe Stockholm-based \u200bECDC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cECDC is in contact with the French authorities and European partners to investigate the potential public \u2060health implications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The French announcement said the \u200bleading hypothesis was that the patient was \u200binfected in eastern France, where the virus had circulated among animals this spring and \u200csummer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cBased on the knowledge available regarding \u200bthis virus, no health risk to the general population has been identified to date,\u201d it \u2060said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The ECDC said the patient \u2060died in early \u200bOctober and noted the victim had been receiving treatment for a serious illness that made them more susceptible to infection than the general population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cInvestigations into whether the virus caused or contributed to the patient\u2019s death and how the infection was acquired are ongoing,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There are currently no commercially available vaccines against Shamonda virus, WOAH said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Identified in Nigeria in the mid-1960s, Shamonda was \u200cfirst confirmed in Europe in \u2060late July after genomic tests on sick cattle in southern Germany, Switzerland and eastern France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A report from France\u2019s weekly animal health surveillance bulletin said \u200cthe virus had also been detected in Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, \u200band UK\u2019s Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A study of French nine dairy farms \u200bfound milk output fell by up to 75 per cent in affected herds. &#8211; 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