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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
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Jonathan Blackburn; Kirstie McCrum
Sam Hancock
Uk·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
Uk·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.
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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
Uk·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
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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.
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Currents
Uk·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.
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Currents
United Kingdom·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...
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India Today World Desk
Uk·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.
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Currents
Uk·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.
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Staff Writers Reuters
Uk·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.
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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 ...
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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
Uk·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
Uk·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
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Malay Mail
Uk·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...
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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
Uk·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.
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Brooke Davies; Brooke-Davies; Noora Mykkanen; Ryan Prosser; Elizabeth-Mcallister; Luke Alsford; Barney Davis
Uk·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.
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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
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ECDC
United Kingdom·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
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