Paratroopers jump onto Britain’s most remote inhabited island for hantavirus mission

May 11, 2026 | INVESTING

British 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 on Sunday.
The UK Health Security Agency confirmed on Friday that a British national had disembarked from the cruise ship MV Hondius to the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, where they live, with a suspected case of hantavirus.
Six paratroopers, a Royal Air Force (RAF)…

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