Hantavirus in United Kingdom

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Brit hospitalised with hantavirus in the Netherlands after cruise ship outbreak returns to UK

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Laura Hill; Alexandra Snow Press Association

Brit evacuated from hantavirus cruise ship returns to UK

The UK Health Security Agency said the person has been medically evacuated from the Netherlands to England and is now following strict infection prevention and control measures

Alexandra Snow

Briton treated in Netherlands for hantavirus returns to UK

The person was medically evacuated from the Netherlands to England and is now following strict infection prevention and control measures

The Independent

Brit hospitalised with hantavirus in the Netherlands after cruise ship outbreak returns to UK

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SECTIONS Hantavirus Britain secures experimental Japanese drug

Hantavirus: Britain secures experimental Japanese drug to strengthen response

Britain has received experimental favipiravir from Japan to treat a deadly hantavirus outbreak. The drug is not licensed in the UK and its use for hantavirus is experimental. The outbreak involves Andes virus, which can spread between people. Health officials confirm no increased transmissibility or...

Paige Ingram; Izzie Addison Press Association

Medic with hantavirus symptoms treated in UK hospital as 9 others set to arrive

A medic with hantavirus symptoms is being treated at a specialist London hospital as nine people potentially exposed to the virus are expected to arrive in the UK

Izzie Addison

Medic with hantavirus symptoms in UK hospital as nine virus contacts to arrive

A group of nine Britons from St Helena and Ascension Island are expected to arrive in the UK on Sunday evening.

Izzie Addison

Medic with hantavirus symptoms in UK hospital as 9 people linked to cruise arrive

UKHSA said Britons from St Helena and Ascension Island are expected to arrive in the UK on Sunday evening

Currents

British patient well enough to leave Netherlands as port of Rotterdam awaits Hondius

Ministers Hermans of Health, Welfare, and Sport and Berendsen of Foreign Affairs informed the Tweede Kamer that the British passenger from the cruise ship Hondius, who is hospitalized in the Netherlands with hantavirus, has recovered sufficiently to travel to the United Kingdom, AD reports.

Rosie Shead

UK rapid response unit sent to remote South Atlantic islands amid Hantavirus outbreak

Isabella Machin

UK sends rapid response mobile lab to hantavirus outbreak cruise ship

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced that a three-person team from the the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) was sent to St Helena.

Rosie Shead

UK sends rapid response team to remote island after hantavirus cruise ship outbreak

The UK has sent a rapid support team to the remote island of St Helena

Katrine Bussey

Hantavirus expert's verdict on UK outbreak - and why it's nothing like Covid

Prof Emma Thomson of the MRC Centre for Virus Research says the UK may see 'one or two' positive hantavirus cases following the MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak, but insists a Covid-19-style pandemic is 'very, very unlikely'

Jane Kirby

Hantavirus: Ten Britons from remote islands to come to UK to isolate

UKHSA says citizens of British overseas territories will be brought to the UK in case they need care

Jane Kirby

Britons connected to cruise ship outbreak of hantavirus to complete isolation in UK

Reuters

Britain to bring 10 people to UK for precautionary isolation after hantavirus outbreak

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Jane Kirby

Hantavirus: Ten people from remote islands to come to UK to isolate

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said people in British overseas territories would be brought to the UK in case they need care.

Barney Davis

Ten people from islands to land in UK to self isolate after hantavirus outbreak

It is not yet known whether any of those being flown to the UK are British nationals.

GOV.UK blogs

What you need to know about the hantavirus outbreak linked to the Dutch cruise ship

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India Today Video Desk

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Video: UK paratrooper's parachute drop on remote island to aid hantavirus patient

The UK Defence Ministry released dramatic footage of a British paratrooper dropping onto the remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha to aid a man suspected of contracting hantavirus after leaving the cruise ship MV Hondius.

Jonathan Blackburn; Kirstie McCrum

Death reported

Hantavirus quarantine block as 22 cruise ship passengers arrive in Merseyside

Tweenty-two people are in isolation in the UK after being evacuated from a cruise ship at the centre of a suspected hantavirus outbreak in which three people died

Sam Hancock

Hantavirus: How are countries responding to the cruise virus?

The UK, US and EU are asking all citizens returning home from the virus-hit MV Hondius to self-isolate for about six weeks.

Marti Stelling; Patrick Harrington

What UK health chiefs are doing to stop the spread of hantavirus

Health chiefs are racing to contain a rare hantavirus outbreak after British cruise passengers were flown back to the UK and placed into quarantine under strict biosecurity measures.

Patrick Harrington

Brits from Hantavirus ship in quarantine, French evacuee has symptoms

British passengers evacuated from the Hantavirus cruise ship have entered quarantine at a hospital near Liverpool that housed the UK's first Covid patients.

Dan Haygarth; Namita Singh; Daniel Haygarth; Dabn Haygarth

Hantavirus latest:French and US tourists test positive for deadly virus as evacuated British passengers arrive in UK

Repatriated British passengers moved to Arrowe Park Hospital in Merseyside to self-isolate

Tom Lawrence

Plane carrying Brits from rat virus ship touches down in Manchester

A plane carrying British passengers who spent months on board the hantavirus-stricken ship have touched down back in the UK.

Currents

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Video. UK Army parachutes onto remote Atlantic island over suspected hantavirus case

Video. The British military parachuted medics and emergency supplies into Tristan da Cunha after a resident was suspected of contracting hantavirus.

Currents

Suspected

British paratroopers drop onto Tristan da Cunha to treat suspected hantavirus case

A British military team parachuted onto Tristan da Cunha on Saturday, the United Kingdom's most remote overseas territory, to assist a British national suspected of contracting hantavirus, in the first humanitarian operation of its kind carried out by the British Armed Forces. The island, home to 22...

India Today World Desk

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Watch: UK Army's 'daring' parachute op aids hantavirus patient on remote island

British military medics parachuted onto Tristan da Cunha to support a resident with suspected hantavirus after he left the MV Hondius. The unprecedented mission underscored the island's isolation as the cruise ship outbreak continued to affect British passengers.

Currents

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British paratroopers drop onto Tristan da Cunha for suspected hantavirus case | The Jerusalem Post

The operation is the first time the UK military has deployed medical personnel to provide humanitarian support via a parachute jump, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

Staff Writers Reuters

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UK paratroopers drop into remote island over hantavirus

Paratroopers have airdropped medical supplies to the world's remotest inhabited island after a suspected case of hantavirus.

Annabel Bate

Confirmed

Army medics parachute on to remote British island to support hantavirus response

The Ministry of Defence released dramatic footage of a specialist Army team and medical personnel parachuting onto British overseas territory with medical aid and equipment. The UK Health Security Agency confirmed on Friday (8 May) that a British national disembarked from the cruise ship MV Hondius ...

Rob Freeman

Confirmed

Army parachutes team on to Tristan da Cunha to support hantavirus response

The UK Health Security Agency confirmed a British national disembarked on to the island from the MV Hondius with a suspected case.

Agence France-Presse

Hantavirus outbreak: UK to isolate cruise ship passengers in ex-Covid hospital

There are around 24 British passengers and crew, as well as two people from Ireland, on board the MV Hondius.

Liam Thorp; Christopher Mallett

Brits from deadly rat virus cruise ship all going to same UK area to isolate

British passengers and staff from the MV Hondius hit with an outbreak of hantavirus will be brought to isolate in Merseyside when they return to the UK

Malay Mail

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What to know about Tristan da Cunha, one of the world’s most remote islands with a suspected hantavirus case

LONDON, May 9 — The UK health security agency said yesterday a new suspected case of hantavirus was identified in a British national on the South Atlantic island of Tristan da...

Kirstie McCrum; Joe Smith

22 Britons on hantavirus cruise ship set for UK repatriation

The MV Hondius cruise ship, which was struck by a hantavirus outbreak, is on track to dock in Tenerife on Sunday, with 22 British nationals on board expected to fly back to the UK the same day

Jane Kirby

Hantavirus outbreak: Government hopes to fly 22 Britons back to UK on Sunday

The majority of Britons returning are expected to self-isolate at home.

Brooke Davies; Brooke-Davies; Noora Mykkanen; Ryan Prosser; Elizabeth-Mcallister; Luke Alsford; Barney Davis

Confirmed

Confirmed hantavirus cases rise with contacts ordered to isolate in hotel rooms

The number of confirmed Hantavirus cases has risen to six as the 22 Brits stuck on the ship prepare to be flown back to the UK.

Simon Calder; Adam Withnall; Harriette Boucher; Maryam Zakir-Hussain

Hantavirus latest: 22 Britons on board cruise ship hit by outbreak could be flown back to UK on Sunday

The British passengers will have to self-isolate for 45 days

ECDC

Death reported

Cruise ship hantavirus outbreak: ECDC response activated

'Many uncertainties still remain with this hantavirus outbreak and it is important that we take a precautionary approach at this point in time to reduce the likelihood of further transmission. An ECDC expert is on the ship to gain more insights and inform public health action', says Dr Pamela Rendi-Wagner. The virus has been identified as Andes hantavirus, the only hantavirus which can be transmitted person-to-person, typically requiring close and prolonged contact. Measures are already in place