France reports first human Shamonda virus case

PARIS, Oct ‌22 (Reuters) - French ​health ​authorities said they had detected the Shamonda virus ‌usually affecting livestock in a ⁠human for the first time in ‌a patient who later ‌died, while adding that they saw no risk to the ​general population at this stage.

Shamonda virus is an insect-borne ⁠Orthobunyavirus primarily affecting livestock, particularly cattle, and ​transmitted by biting midges.

First identified in Nigeria in the mid-1960s, ​it has since ‌been detected sporadically in animals in Africa and ⁠Japan. It has been spreading among several European countries this year.

The ⁠virus had until now been considered non-transmissible ​to humans, the French government said.

The leading hypothesis is that the patient ‌may have been infected in eastern France, where the ‌virus had been circulating ⁠among animals during ‌spring and ​summer 2026.

(Reporting by Sybille de la Hamaide and Makini ‌Brice)

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