The French health department issued a communiqué on the 22nd saying that the country discovered the world's first officially recorded case of human infection with the Shamondaviruses. The patient died at the beginning of this month. The chamunda virus belongs to the genus Bunia virus and is mainly spread to animals through blood-sucking midges of the genus Culicus. The virus was first discovered in Nigeria in the mid-1960s, and has since been sporadically reported in cattle herds in West Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and Japan. According to the French animal health department, the effects of the virus on animals include diarrhea, weakness, and loss of appetite, which in a few cases can cause fever.

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