{"id":225018,"date":"2024-10-03T03:56:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/03\/hamburg-station-virus-scare-on-high-speed-train\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T03:56:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:56:21","slug":"hamburg-station-virus-scare-on-high-speed-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/03\/hamburg-station-virus-scare-on-high-speed-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg station virus scare on high-speed train"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                       \n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fire department spokesman told the Bild tabloid that the man and his girlfriend had developed flu-like symptoms on a high-speed train from Frankfurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spokesman said they had come from abroad where they had been treating a man who went on to develop an infectious disease, without giving details of the illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was unclear what was wrong with them but the man, who was reported to be a medical student, did not have a fever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hamburg&#8217;s Morgenpost website said they had arrived in Frankfurt from Rwanda on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 period before it was allowed to reopen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The East African country\u00a0is currently battling\u00a0an outbreak of the Marburg virus, Eight people are known to have died so far in the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10032611066 lazyload ewww_webp_lazy_load\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-2.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" data-eio-rwidth=\"800\" data-eio-rheight=\"449\" src-webp=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-2.jpg.webp\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10032611066\" data-eio=\"l\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The high-speed ICE train in Hamburg had travelled from Frankfurt (file pic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marburg, which is not airborne, can be transmitted by exposure to fruit bats and between people via body fluids through unprotected sex and broken skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The virus produces fever, headaches, vomiting and diarrhoea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the World Health Organization (WHO), on average, the Marburg virus kills half of the people it infects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n                <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n               \n <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                        \n\n    \n                                 \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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