A British national is being treated on the world’s most remote inhabited island for a suspected rare rat-borne virus, as authorities in London grapple with the widening fallout from a deadly disease outbreak on a cruise ship.
The person was receiving care on the Atlantic volcano of Tristan da Cunha after disembarking from the MV Hondius on one of several stops in tiny British-dependent territories en route from South America, the UK government said on Friday.
The case highlights how the Hondius hantavirus crisis has confronted the UK with twin problems: managing its nationals aboard the cruise ship and ensuring the safety of small islands under its sovereignty that have limited medical facilities.
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