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

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

The cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, leaves the port of Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife, Spain May 11, 2026. [Photo/Agencies]

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