Paratroopers for one sick man on a remote island

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Paratroopers for one sick man on a remote island

FACTS

  • British cruise passenger tests positive for hantavirus
  • Lives on Tristan da Cunha (221 people, mid-Atlantic)
  • RAF dropped a medical team by parachute

TAKEAWAY

No proper hospital on the world’s most remote inhabited island.

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