The British Army has deployed a parachute-borne medical team to Tristan da Cunha to treat a resident suspected of infection with the Andes strain of hantavirus. A contingent of six paratroopers and two clinicians from the 16 Air Assault Brigade jumped onto the island, which lacks an airstrip, to augment the island's usual two-person medical crew. Read more...
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