British paratroopers lead airdrop onto Tristan da Cunha for suspected hantavirus case
A six-paratrooper team and two clinicians delivered oxygen and supplies as officials said the island’s medical stock was at a critical level.
- British Army medics from 16 Air Assault Brigade parachuted onto remote Tristan da Cunha to support a resident with suspected hantavirus and deliver critical medical supplies to the 221-person South Atlantic community.
- The Ministry of Defence reported that oxygen and medical supplies on the island had reached a 'critical level,' necessitating the emergency intervention for a territory with no airstrip accessible only by boat.
- Eight personnel deployed from an RAF A400M aircraft, with two paratroopers jumping in tandem with an intensive care nurse and doctor to reinforce the island's typical two-person medical team amid 25mph winds.
- Minister for the Armed Forces Al Carns said the mission occurred under 'incredibly challenging circumstances,' marking the first time UK military medics have been parachuted for humanitarian support to an overseas territory.
- Remaining passengers from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius will return to the UK for a 45-day isolation period at Arrowe Park Hospital in Merseyside under UK Health Security Agency monitoring and testing.
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Paratroopers in ‘pretty tasty jump’ on to remote island in hantavirus response
Six paratroopers, an RAF consultant and an Army nurse from 16 Air Assault Brigade were parachuted on to Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean. Paratroopers landed on a “golf course covered in rocks” to supply medical personnel and oxygen to Britain’s most remote overseas territory as it deals with a suspected hantavirus case, an Army commander said. The UK Health Security Agency confirmed on Friday that a British national had disembarked …
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NUA team of soldiers has traveled to the island of Tristan da Cunha to help the Briton. He left the Dutch cruise ship Hondius in mid-April.
After his journey on the "Hondius" there were symptoms of illness in a man. An infection with the hantavirus? To check this, physicians had to take an unusual work path to the patient's rather remote place of residence.
British military medics have parachuted to the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha to help a British national suspected of having hantavirus, who left a cruise ship hit by an outbreak in mid-April.
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