A remote island with no airstrip, a sick man in need of medical attention, and the clock ticking. Faced with this unusual challenge, the British army last week parachuted medical personnel onto Tristan da Cunha, its overseas territory in the south Atlantic Ocean, to help a resident suspected to have contracted hantavirus. Marking the first time the British military had to parachute personnel to provide humanitarian aid, a party of eight, led by brigade commander Ed Cartwright, safely landed on the Tristan De Cunha golf course. Almost 3.3 tonnes of medical supplies were also sir-dropped, in three batches. The unnamed Tristan-native patient had spent time aboard the  MV Hondius , which has witnessed a hantavirus outbreak. The ship dropped off the patient at Tristan Da Cunha on April 14. He reported symptoms two weeks later. The Andes strain of hantavirus, which was reported on the ship, is transmissible from humans to humans. Tristan da Cunha has a population of 221.…