health
May 11, 2026
British army parachutes medics to remote island over suspected hantavirus case (VIDEO)
A resident of the island of Tristan da Cunha in the southern Atlantic has exhibited suspected hantavirus symptoms after leaving a “plague ship” hit by the outbreak
TL;DR
- British Army airdropped medics and paratroopers to Tristan da Cunha.
- The mission was to treat a suspected hantavirus case on the remote island.
- The patient had left the cruise ship MV Hondius, which had a hantavirus outbreak.
- The Andes strain of hantavirus, capable of human-to-human transmission, was identified on the ship.
- Tristan da Cunha has no airstrip and is only reachable by sea.