Hamburg station virus scare on high-speed train

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Hamburg station virus scare on high-speed train

A station platform has been cordoned off at Hamburg central station in northern Germany amid fears that a train passenger may have arrived carrying a dangerous virus.

A ***** department spokesman told the Bild tabloid that the man and his girlfriend had developed flu-like symptoms on a high-speed train from Frankfurt.

The spokesman said they had come from abroad where they had been treating a man who went on to develop an infectious ********, without giving details of the illness.

It was unclear what was wrong with them but the man, who was reported to be a medical student, did not have a fever.

Hamburg’s Morgenpost website said they had arrived in Frankfurt from Rwanda on Wednesday morning.

A team of police and firefighters went to the station and the man and his girlfriend were then taken to a specialist clinic. Platform four was closed for a ******* before it was allowed to reopen.

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, Eight people are known to have been ***** so far in the outbreak.

Marburg, which is not airborne, can be transmitted by exposure to fruit bats and between people via body fluids through unprotected **** and broken skin.

The virus produces fever, headaches, vomiting and diarrhoea.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), on average, the Marburg virus ****** half of the people it infects.

It was first identified in 1967, when lab workers were infected with a previously unknown infectious agent first in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany, and then in Serbia.

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