France: The first human infection with the Chamonda virus was identified in a patient who died in Lyon.

France: The first human infection with the Chamonda virus was identified in a patient who died in Lyon.

On Thursday, the French authorities announced that the first human infection with the Chamunda virus, transmitted by small biting insects and spread only to animals, was discovered in a severely immunodeficient patient who died in early October in a hospital in Lyon. The ministries of health and agriculture explained in a joint statement that this case is "unusual" because the virus has been spreading in Africa and Asia for decades without human infection being recorded so far. The infection most likely resulted from the bite of a colicoid fly in eastern France.

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