British man hauled out of bar when he was meant to be in quarantine for hantavirus

What a way to interrupt a drink...

Hantavirus remains in the global headlines following the outbreak on a cruise ship which has led to three deaths and number of other cases.

Stakes were heightened after the World Health Organisation confirmed that the strain of hantavirus was human transmissible.

Beyond those on the ship, anyone who had come into close proximity with people on the cruise were also put on a 42-day isolation period.

This was the case for a British man in his 60s and his travelling companion who had been on the same flight as Mirjam Schilperoord, 69, who died after flying from St Helena to Johannesburg when she contracted the virus.

She was the wife of the first man to die, Leo, 70, who boarded the MV Hondius and went birdwatching at a rubbish tip on a remote Argentinian island.

The pair were apprehended in Milan and taken to Sacco Hospital where they were told they must be quarantined until 6 June as part of a 42-day isolation period.

There have now been 11 reported cases of the rare disease, nine of which have been confirmed.

There people have died and another is in a serious condition.