The Shamonda virus has been identified in a human patient for the first time, French health authorities said
The insect-borne virus primarily affects livestock, particularly cattle, and is transmitted by biting midges.
The patient, who was already immunocompromised, died in October while being treated at the Hospices Civils de Lyon for a serious illness, the ministry of agriculture said.
As a reminder, and based on current knowledge about this virus, no health risk to the general population has been identified to date.
I wonder if there was a translation difference between English and French:
no health risk to the general population
Seems like there is at least some risk.
Virus detection doesn't even imply the virus was successfully reproducing in the patient. It could have just been floating around in his system from exposure.
I am no expect but I would guess it would need to be reproducing to be at a level that is detectable.
How many virus cells could a couple midge bites actual put into the blood stream.
I'm not sure. I recall there being a lot of criticism about how they were testing for presence of covid, basically setting the sensitivity to the point where it would register normal levels of viral fragments as an infection.