Suspected hantavirus case triggers emergency deployment to isolated island
As Americans are evacuated from the Dutch-flagged cruise ship linked to the hantavirus outbreak, two passengers have now tested positive.
But in the South Atlantic, a scene from a Hollywood thriller: paratroopers dropping onto one of the world’s most remote inhabited islands with emergency medical supplies after a suspected case.
A British national is now in a stable condition while isolating.
Hantavirus aid airdropped to island
- UK military parachutes onto remote island after suspected hantavirus case 📹 Reuters — · 40sec
- Army race to parachute oxygen to hantavirus patient on world’s most remote island 📹 The Independent — · 2min
- Watch: Parachuting to a remote island to deliver Hantavirus aid BBC News —
- UK military parachutes onto remote island after suspected hantavirus case 📹 Reuters — · 40sec
- Suspected hantavirus case triggers emergency deployment to isolated island • FRANCE 24 English 📹 France 24 — · 1min