A suspected case of the deadly hantavirus has been identified on a windswept volcanic outpost in the South Atlantic widely considered the most remote inhabited place on Earth. The U.K. Health Security Agency announced Friday that a resident of Tristan da Cunha,

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Two new suspected cases of hantavirus were reported Friday — one in Spain and another on Tristan da Cunha — widening the geographic footprint of an outbreak that began aboard a luxury cruise ship in the South Atlantic.