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.

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