Paras vs Hantavirus

[DWG]

In among the current Hantavirus outbreak was one patient who'd got off on Tristan da Cunha, because he lives there. When his case turned critical, the island, which is a week by ship from anywhere, with no airfield, started running out of oxygen, so a call for help went out to Whitehall. Enter the RAF and the Pathfinder Platoon of the Parachute Regiment - 56 hours and 7000 miles later, an A400M drops six pathfinders, two tandem jumping with a doctor and nurse, onto the island's golf course.

https://www.forcesnews.com/services...rried-out-medical-para-drop-remote-settlement

 

[Titus K]

onto the island's golf course.

Didn’t even know this, but they managed to build a golf course on Tristan da Cunha… of course they did. Can’t leave 300 Brits without a proper golf course.

 

[publiusr]

40% fatality rate
https://www.osha.gov/hantavirus
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-french-hantavirus-patient-critically-ill.html

The latest
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/infec...illance-and-updates/andes-hantavirus-outbreak
https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/data-research/cases/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases...lmonary-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20351838

One great resource is the MMWR...once even featured in the 90's series Millennium:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.html

 

[publiusr]

On travel
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-planes-pandemics-lessons-covid19-posed.html

 

[PMN1]

Well the River class patrol vessel with the bulk of the medical supplies has now arrived, the patient must have been in a bad way to need to Para drop sooner.