British Paratroopers Help Remote Island with Hantavirus Case

Topic: Infectious Diseases

UK paratroopers brought medical supplies to Tristan da Cunha.

In short:

The UK evacuated 10 people from islands for quarantine in Britain.

Paratroopers brought medical supplies to Tristan de Cunha.

Hospital staff in the Netherlands isolated after handling hantavirus patient samples.

British paratroopers helped a remote community with vital supplies.

The UK Health Security Agency announced 10 people would be brought to the UK for isolation.

The individuals were already isolating and not showing symptoms.

A Spanish passenger tested positive for hantavirus.

The governor of Saint Helena said medical staff would be relocated to Britain.

The UK Ministry of Defence shared photos of soldiers parachuting onto Tristan de Cunha.

Specialist paratroopers and military clinicians jumped from an RAF A400M.

An airborne insertion was the fastest way to support the island.

New medical clinicians were dropped on the island after a suspected hantavirus case.

On Saint Helena, a small number of people were assessed as higher-risk contacts.

UKHSA advised they should be moved to Britain to complete their isolation.

A French passenger infected with hantavirus is critically ill.

Twenty-five crew members are sailing the MV Hondius to Rotterdam.

Eleven cases have been reported, nine of which have been confirmed.

Three people on the Oceanwide Expeditions cruise died.

A French passenger with a severe infection is on a ventilator.

The French passenger has a severe form of the disease.

French Health Minister Stephanie Rist said it was uncertain if the hantavirus strain had mutated.

There are things we do not know about this virus.

The French health ministry did not respond to a request for comment.

A travel influencer's voyage turned into a nightmare after three people were killed by hantavirus.

Pasteur Institute epidemiologist Olivier Schwartz said two viruses have been sequenced.

Another sequence was obtained at the Pasteur Institute.

The sequence was very similar to the one from Zurich.

Four Australians arrived in the Netherlands as part of the evacuation.

The MV Hondius is sailing back to the Netherlands to be disinfected.

'Play it safe'

A Dutch hospital quarantined 12 staff members as a preventive measure.

Australian passengers will quarantine at the Bullsbrook National Resilience Facility.

The 12 people will be quarantined for six weeks.

The Radboudumc hospital admitted its hantavirus patient on May 7.

Dutch Health Minister Sophie Hermans said strict procedures were followed.

The likelihood that staff have been infected is small.

Hermans said she was confident the Dutch government could keep the virus under control.

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there is no sign of a larger outbreak.

A rodent-borne illness is suspected of causing deaths and sickness.

The situation could change, and more cases might be seen in the coming weeks.

The latest person confirmed to be infected is a Spanish passenger.

The passenger was in quarantine at a military hospital in Madrid.

Argentina is sending experts to investigate the source of the outbreak.

Argentina's health ministry will dispatch a team of scientific experts.

The Dutch couple spent several months in Argentina and neighbouring countries.

Argentina's health ministry deployed medical experts to investigate.

The couple may have been exposed to rodents carrying the infection.

The health ministry will investigate the landfill and other locations.

Arnaud Fontanet said the hunt for new cases could drag on for months.

The situation presents a good way to test international coordination.

Reuters/AP/AFP

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