UK says third British national has suspected hantavirus
Health officials are tracing dozens of passengers as two British men remain in intensive care and a third suspected case is on Tristan da Cunha.
- On Friday, the UK Health Security Agency confirmed an additional suspected hantavirus case in a British national on the remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, bringing the total affected British citizens to three.
- Three people, including a Dutch couple and a German national, have died in the outbreak aboard the MV Hondius, while five individuals are confirmed to have contracted the virus after visiting South American bird-watching sites.
- Medical teams evacuated a 69-year-old passenger to South Africa last month and Martin Anstee, aged 56, to the Netherlands on Wednesday for specialist care, while four other Britons remain under observation on Helena.
- With the ship expected to dock in Tenerife on Sunday, the Government is organizing a chartered repatriation flight for remaining passengers and crew, requiring all returnees to isolate for 45 days upon arrival.
- Professor Robin May, Chief Scientific Officer at the UKHSA, stressed that the risk to the general public remains very low, with strict infection control measures enforced throughout the repatriation process to ensure safety.
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New hantavirus case suspected on remote island as contact tracing continues
A new suspected case of hantavirus was identified in a British national on the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha on Friday, as efforts continue to trace passengers of the luxury cruise ship hit by the virus and their immediate contacts. The British health security agency did not disclose further details of the new suspected case on the world’s remotest inhabited island, home to only around 200 people, where the cruise ship made a stop on…
Britain announces the third suspicion of Hantavirus. The remaining passengers on board the cruise ship must be quarantined after returning to Great Britain.
The balance of the epidemic on the Hondius ship remains of 11 infected, of which 3 are dead. A hundred people are in isolation in 12 countries of the world.
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