Hantavirus: British Army Paratroops Medics onto Tristan da Cunha
British paratroopers have dropped onto the world’s most remote inhabited island to treat a suspected case of hantavirus. This mission marks the first time the UK military has parachuted medical staff into a humanitarian crisis. The patient, a British resident of Tristan da Cunha, caught the virus while aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship. He…