WHO warns after human death linked to Shamonda virus
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Daily Monitor
The World Health Organisation has issued an alert after the first documented human case of Shamonda virus was detected in a man who died in the Lyon region of France. Only one case has been reported and French authorities have identified no risk to the general population, according to the Daily Monitor.
The World Health Organisation said a single human case of illness linked to the Shamonda virus had been reported after the death of a man hospitalised in the Lyon region, the Daily Monitor reports. The patient, who was in his sixties and had a serious underlying condition, died after being infected with the virus, which mainly affects domestic animals, including cattle, sheep, goats and horses.
French authorities have identified no risk to the general population, according to the media outlet. The patient’s death in Lyon was reported on 22 October, after France’s first human case was announced.
