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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

Posted on 05/10/2026 7:00:27 AM PDT by 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.

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Here we go again. Please click through to the article if only because of the picture of the paratroopers. LOL.

Can't help but wonder, if they've got to use parachutes to get in, how are they going to get out.

How low can media go? As low as Big Pharma tells them. Got to sell some more juice in arms.

1 posted on 05/10/2026 7:00:27 AM PDT by Auntie Mame
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2 posted on 05/10/2026 7:10:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Auntie Mame
Please click through to the article

No can do. Unless I subscribe, which I won't.
3 posted on 05/10/2026 7:10:28 AM PDT by adorno ( )
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To: Auntie Mame

Politicians are drooling at the chance to take total control again


4 posted on 05/10/2026 7:10:51 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Auntie Mame

Another source:

https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/hantavirus-army-tristan-da-cunha-parachute-b2973754.html
A specialist team of army and medical personnel have been parachuted on to the British overseas territory Tristan da Cunha with medical aid and equipment after a British national showed symptoms of hantavirus.

The patient had been on board the cruise ship MV Hondius where an outbreak of the virus has killed three people, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed.

They are currently in hospital on the island where they live, the UK minister for the overseas territories, Stephen Doughty, said in a statement.


5 posted on 05/10/2026 7:18:36 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: Auntie Mame

There’s no airport and limited sea access, so if time’s important, this makes the most sense.


6 posted on 05/10/2026 7:21:21 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: mewzilla

No mention if it’s Andes...


7 posted on 05/10/2026 7:22:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: Auntie Mame

My guess is that the paratroops are going in blind, they probably don’t know the situation on the island regarding females and beer, they will have to deal with whatever they find.


8 posted on 05/10/2026 7:24:30 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Auntie Mame

Much more here...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/british-army-parachutes-tristan-da-cunha-hantavirus-tenerife-raf-b1281758.html

Though still no mention if it’s Andes..


9 posted on 05/10/2026 7:25:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: mewzilla

https://gulfnews.com/world/hantavirus-case-fatality-rate-source-prevention-who-spain-race-to-contain-andes-strain-1.500535354

Okaaaay...


10 posted on 05/10/2026 7:28:28 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: adorno

I didn’t know Rotters had gone subscription based.

No big loss, I suppose.


11 posted on 05/10/2026 7:42:35 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: mewzilla

Hantavirus known in US Southwest...


12 posted on 05/10/2026 7:58:37 AM PDT by Does so ("The Party of Death"...Dem☭¢rats ™ ® © ≣ ½⅓⅔¼¾ ⅛⅜⅝⅞ snt⅓ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚)
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To: Doctor Congo

symptoms are flu. Like the WuhanFlu.

All BShitte. Here in Northern CaCaLand a neighbor or two comes down with HVirus every year. It is endemic to everywhere.

Starmer could not defend Cyprus with his crappola military so he parachutes into a flu outbreak.
Don’t give me crappola about Brit lives lost in Iraq/Aphgan as a US ally — this is Brit military today.


13 posted on 05/10/2026 8:06:46 AM PDT by bobbo666
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