From the Shamond virus for the first time died a person

In France, there was a human infection with the Chamond virus, this is the world’s first documented detection of the disease in humans. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of France.

According to Reuters, citing French authorities, the patient died.

Shamond virus (SHAV) is a causative agent of an infectious disease of animals belonging to the genus Orthobunyavirus and the Simbu serogroup, to which the viruses of Schmallenberg disease and Aqabane also belong. The virus is transmitted mainly through the bites of blood-sucking midges of the genus Culicoides and affects primarily cattle. The virus was first identified in Nigeria in the 1960s.