France reports first human Shamonda virus case

Straits Times22 October 2026, 08:36 UTCFrance

PARIS, Oct 22 - 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.

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