News

Army parachutes onto Tristan da Cunha to help Briton with suspected hantavirus

British Army medical personnel were recently deployed via parachute onto the isolated South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha to assist a British citizen suspected of being infected with hantavirus. This man had disembarked from the MV Hondius, a cruise ship that experienced a deadly outbreak, and returned to Britain’s most remote inhabited overseas territory.…