An emergency medical deployment of paratroopers has been sent to an isolated South Atlantic island following a suspected hantavirus case. Passengers from a cruise ship linked to an outbreak are being evacuated.

As Americans are evacuated from the Dutch-flagged cruise ship linked to the hantavirus outbreak, two passengers have now tested positive. But in the South Atlantic, a scene from a Hollywood thriller: paratroopers dropping onto one of the world’s most remote inhabited islands with emergency medical supplies after a suspected case. A British national is now in a stable condition while isolating.