MADRID, Spain – The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has stated that “Spain is on alert” over the incidence of the shamonda virus in some cattle farms in the country, but has issued a call for “calm” because the disease is being monitored. In a communication provided to Efe by the department headed by Luis Planas, the ministry recalled that it is in “permanent” contact with France, with the autonomous communities and with health authorities.
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In the same document, the ministry recalled that France confirmed on Thursday the death of a person “with severe immunosuppression” who was infected with this virus, despite the fact that it was not considered a disease transmissible to humans. The ministry detailed that this would be the first case worldwide of human infection by this pathogen, according to the latest update report on the situation of this virus, whose first detection in livestock in Spain dates back to last September. Outbreaks have already been confirmed in animals in the provinces of Córdoba, Toledo, Cantabria, Madrid, Ávila and Girona. The ministry stressed that the French authorities are carrying out clinical, biological and epidemiological investigations under the One Health approach, which integrates knowledge in the fields of human, animal and environmental health, with France also detailing that to date “no health risk has been identified for the general population,” according to the ministry’s statement.
In livestock farming, the shamonda virus is considered an emerging disease that is not notifiable and mainly affects cattle after the bite of vector mosquitoes, and although the pathogen does not cause the animal’s death, it does impact milk production while it suffers the symptoms, the department recalled.
The ministry’s update report, also issued on Thursday, states that the Central Veterinary Laboratory in Algete has confirmed the detection of shamonda virus type 1 on cattle farms in the provinces of Córdoba, Toledo, Ávila and Madrid, and that it has recently been detected in Girona, where three dairy cattle farms were identified on 20 October, with the presence of shamonda type 2 also confirmed in the province of Cantabria. The affected farms have presented symptoms compatible with those described in other European countries, mainly fever, diarrhoea and reduced milk production, with the detections having occurred within the framework of the passive surveillance carried out in Spain for this disease.
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The situation in Spain therefore remains under monitoring, “with special attention to the evolution of cases, the characterisation of the viruses identified and their possible relationship with the genotypes described in other European countries,” according to the report. In Europe, beyond Spain, cases have been detected in livestock in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Slovenia, France, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom (Jersey) and Switzerland, according to the report.
