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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
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
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
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
Hamburg’s Morgenpost website said they had arrived in Frankfurt from Rwanda on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n
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
The East African country is currently battling <\/a>an outbreak of the Marburg virus<\/a>, Eight people are known to have been died so far in the outbreak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 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 The virus produces fever, headaches, vomiting and diarrhoea. <\/p>\n According to the World Health Organization (WHO), on average, the Marburg virus kills half of the people it infects.<\/p>\n 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<\/div>\n