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

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

Suspected hantavirus patients are being flown from the British islands of St. Helena and Ascension back to the United Kingdom as a 'precaution.'

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

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.

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A group of experts and a rapid response mobile laboratory have been dispatched to two remote islands at the centre of the hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship