Explainer-What is Shamonda virus and what are the risks to humans and animals?

Straits Times22 October 2026, 14:41 UTCNigeria

PARIS, Oct 22 - France has reported the first known human case of Shamonda virus in a patient who died, raising questions about the risks posed by a livestock virus that has reached Europe this year decades after first being detected in Nigeria.

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