Two people are being examined in Hamburg for suspected infection with the life-threatening hemorrhagic fever Marburg. Due to suspicion, one of the platforms of the Hamburg main station was closed for several hours.
The DPA agency wrote that two people were transported by a special car from Hamburg Central Station to the hospital due to a possible infection. Because of this, the seventh and eighth tracks were closed for several hours and passengers had to leave the platform, according to the newspaper Bild. Paramedics in special suits intervened on the ICE train that arrived from Frankfurt am Main.
According to the social welfare office in Hamburg, one of the people under investigation recently worked in Rwanda in a hospital where people infected with the virus were treated.
According to DPA, one man had flu-like symptoms and felt slightly nauseous. But he didn’t have a fever. The man arrived from abroad, where he treated a patient with an infectious disease, according to media information.
According to Bild, the couple, a medical student and his girlfriend, developed symptoms of the disease during a trip to Hamburg. There were reportedly 200 passengers on their train. Meanwhile, the temporary closure of part of the station in the northern German capital has been lifted. (ČTK)
