May 8 (UPI) -- A third British passenger from the stricken MV Hondius cruise ship has a suspected hantavirus infection, the British government said Friday.
The patient is on the remote British island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic after disembarking from the ship in the middle of April.
Two other Britons with confirmed hantavirus who were evacuated from the ship were being treated in hospitals in the Netherlands and South Africa, one of them in intensive care.
They are among five confirmed cases, one of whom, a 69-year-old woman from the Netherlands, died after leaving the ship in St. Helena and flying to South Africa. Two other passengers are dead but the cause has yet to be confirmed.
Former British police officer Martin Anstee, 56, who worked aboard the Hondius as an expedition guide, was flown, along with a 41-year-old Dutch crew member and a 65-year-old German, from Cape Verde to the Netherlands, where he was in a stable condition.
