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It happened again - emergence of a Shamonda-like orthobunyavirus in Central Europe, 2026

Wernike, K.; Hoffmann, B.; Link, E. K.; Rotheneder, S.; Eshak, M.; Pfaff, F.; Hoeper, D.; Beer, M.

2026-08-06 microbiology
10.64898/2026.08.06.743243 bioRxiv
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Since mid-June 2026, an acute, non-fatal syndrome with high herd morbidity, reduced milk yield, diarrhea, fever and lethargy affected dairy cattle in southern Germany and Switzerland. Major viral pathogens were excluded. Pan-Simbuvirus PCR first detected an orthobunyavirus, subsequently confirmed by metagenomic sequencing, which enabled recovery of a complete "Shamonda-like" genome. One sentence summary lineMore than a decade after the emergence of Schmallenberg virus in 2011, a novel "Shamonda-like" orthobunyavirus of the Simbu serogroup has now emerged in Central Europe.

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