Inside daring parachute mission to support hantavirus victim on Tristan da Cunha

Emergency teams have been parachuted into the British overseas territory of Tristan da Cunha in St Helena (Picture: Reuters)

Paratroopers responded to a suspected hantavirus case at a golf course covered in rocks on an island in St Helena.

Army personnel descended on Tristan da Cunha, where a British national thought to have caught the disease had disembarked the MV Hondius cruise ship.

A team including six paratroopers, an RAF consultant and an army nurse parachu...