A station platform has been cordoned off at Hamburg central station in northern Germany amid fears {that a} prepare passenger might have arrived carrying a harmful virus.
A hearth division spokesman advised the Bild tabloid that the person and his girlfriend had developed flu-like signs on a high-speed prepare from Frankfurt.
The spokesman stated they’d come from overseas the place they’d been treating a person who went on to develop an infectious illness, with out giving particulars of the sickness.
It was unclear what was incorrect with them however the man, who was reported to be a medical scholar, didn’t have a fever.
Hamburg’s Morgenpost web site stated they’d arrived in Frankfurt from Rwanda on Wednesday morning.
A group of police and firefighters went to the station and the person and his girlfriend have been then taken to a specialist clinic. Platform 4 was closed for a interval earlier than it was allowed to reopen.
The East African nation is currently battling an outbreak of the Marburg virus, Eight individuals are recognized to have been died up to now within the outbreak.
Marburg, which isn’t airborne, could be transmitted by publicity to fruit bats and between individuals by way of physique fluids by way of unprotected intercourse and damaged pores and skin.
The virus produces fever, complications, vomiting and diarrhoea.
In keeping with the World Well being Group (WHO), on common, the Marburg virus kills half of the individuals it infects.
It was first recognized in 1967, when lab employees have been contaminated with a beforehand unknown infectious agent first in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany, after which in Serbia.
