Impact indicated that the world's first human case of infection by the Shamonda virus had been identified in France. The patient, around sixty years old and severely immunocompromised, had died after being hospitalized in Lyon, it wrote. According to Impact, the virus, which had never before been detected in humans, was circulating particularly among cattle and was transmitted by biting flies. Authorities suspected contamination by bite in eastern France, and the patient had developed severe brain complications likely related to the infection, it added. It specified that health authorities had identified no risk to the general population to date. #SantéPublique #Virus #AlerteSanitaire (translated)


