British paratroopers lead airdrop onto Tristan da Cunha for suspected hantavirus case

Reuters ^ | 05/10/2026 | No Author Listed, just Reuters guess no one wanted to put their name on this one

[Auntie Mame]

MADRID, May 10 (Reuters) - British paratroopers have dropped onto Britain's most remote overseas territory, Tristan da Cunha, along with medics and medical supplies, after a case of suspected hantavirus was ​confirmed there.

A team of six paratroopers and two military clinicians from 16 ‌Air Assault Brigade jumped from an RAF A400M transport aircraft that flew 6,788 km (4,218 miles) from RAF Brize Norton air base in Oxfordshire to Ascension Island then another 3,000 km due south to Tristan ​da Cunha.

[V_TWIN]

A show about hantavirus from 2012 broadcast now.....what a coincidence.

TLC doing their part to advance the hantavirus fear porn.

Predictable......and despicable.

[BradyLS]

Gene Hackman’s wife died of it right here in the US and nobody said sht about it....now we’resupposed to freak out because some cruise ship was infected hundreds of miles from the CONUS?

I agree. In another thread, however, I was told that this is _supposedly_ the deadly “Andes’ version of the hantavirus that is the only form communicable between humans that are continually in close proximity to one another—such as the deceased husband and wife. It is still very difficult for this strain to pass between people, though, so I am told.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Actually it was four episodes about many different diseases, but HantaVirus was one of them

[BradyLS]

I agree with you both about the fear porn aspect. On the bright side, all the cities and nations that the ship has tried to call have ordered it to remain at sea and not try to land anyone. That is a sensible course when authorities are trying to figure out what’s going on.