A third British national has suspected hantavirus linked to the outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius. The patient stayed on Tristan da Cunha, a remote Atlantic island where the ship stopped in mid-April

Microbiologist Professor Paul Hunter has given his verdict on the threat of hantavirus after a British doctor became the latest to fall ill and be evacuated from stricken cruise ship MV Hondius

World Health Organisation insists ‘no need to panic’ despite deaths of three aboard cruise ship linked to hantavirus - as scientists give their verdict