French health authorities have reported the first known human case of the Shamonda virus, a disease previously associated with livestock, after an infected patient died earlier this month.
The patient, who was severely immunocompromised, had been hospitalised for a serious medical condition before dying, according to a joint statement issued on Thursday by France’s health and agriculture ministries.
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The authorities said the virus had circulated in Africa and Asia for several decades but had never previously been detected in humans.
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