Third British national has suspected hantavirus infection, government says

A third British national has suspected hantavirus in connection with an outbreak on board the cruise ship MV Hondius, the government has said.

The patient is currently on the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, where the ship stopped in mid-April.

Two other British men have confirmed cases – one remains in a stable condition in the Netherlands after being evacuated from the ship on Wednesday, while the other remains in intensive care after being flown to South Africa last month.

Five cases of hantavirus have been confirmed, including one of the three passengers on the cruise who died.

The MV Hondius is expected to dock in the Canary Islands at the weekend, where the government has confirmed it will be met by a chartered plane to fly the remaining British passengers and crew on the cruise ship back to the UK.

Although none of the remaining Britons are currently displaying symptoms, they will be asked to isolate upon their return home.

Starmer won’t lock the country down. It’s not economically viable at this point. If it does get bad, they’ll have no choice but to let it burn through the nation.

I can only assume there was a mass orgy on board. As the epidemiologists on Reddit told me this only spreads with very prolonged INTIMATE close contact.

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Did you all forget we had a panic a month or two ago, the non-emotionally driven sensible ones told you objectively it will blow over and you all screamed in fear. You’re doing it again. Calm down. Nobody with sense believes this is pandemic material.

The patient is on Tristan da Cunha!?

I know it’s sparsely populated but it’s also a place where everyone lives in a single town… it’s also a place with very little in the way of medical facilities.