法國錄得全球首宗人類感染沙蒙達病毒的病例。法國衛生部門表示,該名患者在里昂一間醫院接受治療,其後病情惡化,最終於10月初不治。
法國錄得全球首宗人類感染沙蒙達病毒的病例。X圖片
沙蒙達病毒主要經吸血蠓蟲叮咬傳播給動物。人類一旦感染,症狀包括腹瀉、虛弱及食慾減退,少數情況下亦會出現發燒。
當局初步調查顯示,患者的腦部出現併發症,估計與這次感染有關。相關的臨床、生物學及流行病學調查仍在進行中,初步估計患者可能曾被攜帶病毒的吸血蠓蟲叮咬,因而受到感染。
🇫🇷 France has recorded the world’s first human case of Shamonda virus The patient died. Health authorities said the virus, which normally infects farm animals, was detected in a person for the first time. It was previously believed not to infect humans. The patient is thought to have been infected in eastern France, where the virus circulated among animals in spring and summer 2026. Spread by midge bites and mainly affecting cattle, it was first identified in Nigeria in the mid-1960s and is now spreading in several European countries. Authorities called the case “exceptional,” noting the patient had a severe immunodeficiency and was being treated in a Lyon hospital for a serious illness.
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法國衛生部門強調,這次屬於發生在免疫功能嚴重受損人士身上的特殊個案,當局已就病例向世界衛生組織及歐洲疾病預防控制中心通報。歐洲疾病預防控制中心回應指,正密切關注相關情況。