
After the first human case recorded in France, the ministry calls for caution while underlining the scientific uncertainties on the danger of the virus.
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Shamonda virus was identified in France in a deceased immunocompromised patient. In Italy, the virus was detected in several cattle herds during the summer.
On the national territory, at present, there are no known human cases of Shamonda virus (Shav) infection. This was confirmed by the Ministry of Health, which prepared a circular after the identification of the first documented human case in France. However, the ministry aims to raise the level of attention and provide indications for human and veterinary surveillance, given that in Italy, since this summer, the presence of the virus has been reported in several cattle farms.
The Ministry of Health first specifies that, based on the evidence available so far, it is not easy to assess the risk to public health that the virus may present, given that "significant elements of uncertainty" still remain. In fact, the first patient affected by the virus, who died in France, was seriously immunocompromised, a dynamic that does not allow us to "conclude the existence of a significant risk for the general population". The subject was aged between 60 and 70 years old, resided in a rural area of the Rhone-Alpes region of France and had been hospitalized continuously since mid-August 2026 for his underlying pathology.
With the information available at the moment, it is not possible to evaluate to what extent the Shamonda virus infects people or causes diseases, so much so that it is difficult to "reliably define the extent of the risk to public health" or "establish the frequency of human infections, the relative clinical spectrum and the possible modes of transmission".
The transmission of the virus through vectors of the Culicoides genus, specifies the ministry, represents a plausible hypothesis, but this mode of transmission to humans has not so far been demonstrated, while "uncertainties remain regarding other possible routes of acquisition of the infection, including transfusion".

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