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Posted on 05/10/2026 5:35:17 AM PDT by Winniesboy
British Army medics have parachuted onto the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha to help a British national with suspected hantavirus.
The man left MV Hondius, the cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the virus, in mid-April at Britain's most remote inhabited overseas territory, where he lives...
Oxygen was also dropped from an RAF A400M on Saturday, with supplies at a "critical level" on the island, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
A team of six paratroopers and two medical clinicians from 16 Air Assault Brigade parachuted on to Tristan da Cunha - an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean considered to be among the world's most remote islands - having flown from RAF Brize Norton...
Two of the paratroopers jumped in tandem with an intensive care nurse and intensive care doctor, who will provide help to the island, which usually has a two-person medical team...
This is the first time the UK military has parachuted in medical personnel to provide humanitarian support, according to the MoD.
Tristan da Cunha, which has a population of 221, has no airstrip and can only be reached by boat. Average winds are often over 25mph, causing difficult conditions for the paratroopers, the MoD said.
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What incredible people who really must have chosen medicine to help others. Clapping wildly and hoping everyone stays safe.
Flashbacks to the movie ‘Outbreak’ where the parachute wasn’t attached to medics but it was sent in by the army for the same kind of reason...to control the spread of an unstoppable virus.
Another related link with no paywall:
Essex troops parachute onto remote island to help British national with suspected hantavirus
A great medical mission adventure for the medical people and the six medics, I wonder what the story is on which Airborne medics get tandem jump training and about tandem jump training in American forces.
They should send him a bill. Perhaps the accounting department calls it training.
Send who a bill, for what?
Mark your calendar.
A total solar eclipse will pass over the island on 5 December 2048. The island is calculated to be on the centre line of the umbra’s path for nearly three and a half minutes of totality.
The infamous South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly must be on the spot or close by.
Tristan de Cunha has an interesting history. Currently home to 246 people. St. Helena—the remote island Napoleon was sent for his second exile and to which Tristan de Cunha is administratively tied—is a sprawling metropolis by comparison.
Tristan da Cunha -- where no one has to reach for the remote!
It sounds lame. We’d go in with Ospreys or Sikorskys so that we’d have significant medical facilities to use on site and a means to airlift the needful to a hospital.
Not really impressive. I’ve tandem jumped twice. You’re basically cargo at that point.
The USN would send an LHA/LHD which is literally a floating ER supporting Ospreys and heavy lift helos. I guess both of the RN’s jump carriers are offline or otherwise engaged. You pretty much need 3 carriers to have 1 at sea and the ability to sortie 1 on relatively short notice.
Interesting to note that the USN had a CVN in the area on joint naval maneuvers off Argentina. I guess it either moved out of the area, Starmer didn’t ask for assistance, or Trump didn’t take his call?
We do have the right stuff.
Population of around 220 on the island, they almost certainly are never exposed to colds, flues, fevers etc that go around. And it’s hard to believe that an island of 220 people has a hospital better than the one aboard ship.
So why the hell does the ship pull in and dump someone with hantavirus and leave them with those people?
The Islanders don’t deserve that.
The islands have an interesting history considering it is so small and off the beaten path so to speak.
I don’t know,but I’d guess that the disease still hadn’t been diagnosed at the time he left.
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