A third British national has been diagnosed with suspected hantavirus, in connection with the outbreak on board the cruise ship MV Hondius.
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The patient is currently on the remote island of Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic Ocean, where the ship docked in mid-April.
The viral outbreak has been linked to the deaths of three passengers, a Dutch couple and a German woman. Five of eight suspected cases have been confirmed as hantavirus.
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