The virus was first isolated from cattle in Nigeria in 1965, and for decades thereafter it was detected only sporadically in West, East, and southern Africa, as well as in Japan.
France’s Ministries of Health and Agriculture confirmed on Wednesday that the infection represents “the first documented and reported detection of the virus in a human”.
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