France confirms first Shamonda virus infection in a human death of 'severely immunocompromised' individual

French health officials on Thursday confirmed that they had detected the Shamonda virus in a human — who died early this month — in what they say was the first-ever case of a human contracting the livestock disease. "Despite circulating in Africa and Asia for several decades, the Shamonda virus has never previously been detected in humans," said France 's Ministries of Health and of Agriculture in a joint statement. "No health risk to the general public identified at this time," they said, adding that the human infection appeared to be, "an exceptional case involving a severely immunocompromised patient.