Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. All News Sport Culture Lifestyle Britons evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise arrive in UK for isolation A British man hospitalised in Johannesburg with hantavirus, contracted on a luxury cruise ship, is “clinically improving but still ill”, a South African health ministry spokesperson said. The patient was medically evacuated to South Africa on 27 April after developing a fever, shortness of breath, and pneumonia symptoms. He disembarked from the MV Hondius cruise ship at Ascension Island, which had departed from Argentina. The identified strain is the Andes hantavirus, typically found in Argentina and Chile, and is a rodent-borne virus. Three other individuals – a Dutch couple and a German national – have died since the outbreak began on the ship.…