International Courant
A platform at Hamburg’s central station in northern Germany has been cordoned off amid fears {that a} prepare passenger might have arrived with a harmful virus.
A hearth brigade spokesperson instructed tabloid Bild that the person and his girlfriend had developed flu-like signs on a high-speed prepare from Frankfurt.
The spokesman mentioned they got here from overseas the place they had been treating a person who developed an infectious illness, with out giving particulars of the illness.
It was unclear what was mistaken with them, however the man, who was reportedly a medical pupil, didn’t have a fever.
Based on the web site of Morgenpost in Hamburg, they arrived in Frankfurt from Rwanda on Wednesday morning.
A crew of police and fireplace brigades went to the station and the person and his girlfriend had been then taken to a specialist clinic. Platform 4 was closed for some time earlier than it was allowed to reopen.
The East African nation is presently competing an outbreak of the Marburg virusEight persons are identified to have died within the outbreak to date.
Marburg, which isn’t airborne, will be transmitted by means of publicity to fruit bats and between individuals by means of physique fluids by means of unprotected intercourse and damaged pores and skin.
The virus causes fever, headache, vomiting and diarrhea.
Based on the World Well being Group (WHO), the Marburg virus kills on common half of the individuals it infects.
It was first recognized in 1967, when laboratory staff first in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany, after which in Serbia, had been contaminated with a beforehand unknown infectious agent.
