The team consists of paratroopers and medics, the UK Ministry of Defense announced.
The hantavirus-infected cruise ship Hondius arrived at the isolated island in the South Atlantic on April 13. A British citizen who disembarked from the ship and is a resident of the island has been taken to a health facility on the island because he is suspected of carrying the virus.
The specialist team was dropped from a transport aircraft because the island of Tristan da Cunha does not have an airport.
