Federal Police shut down lines 7 and 8 for several hours. Passengers had to leave the platforms, emergency services in full protective gear boarded the ICE train from Frankfurt, as two of the travelers may have been infected with the deadly Marburg virus, reports Bild.
According to the information being transmitted, the man is a German medical student. He had boarded the ICE train to Hamburg with his girlfriend in Frankfurt on Wednesday afternoon. During the train journey, they both developed flu-like symptoms. Whether they actually contracted the Marburg virus remains to be seen, according to fire service spokesman Christian Wolter.
The student had previously traveled by plane directly from Rwanda. There he had come into contact with a patient, who was later diagnosed by doctors as having contracted the Marburg virus.
Rwanda, an East African country is currently plagued by the deadly virus. The Ministry of Health in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, said eight people have died from the virus since last Friday. A total of 27 cases of Marburg virus infection have been confirmed.
The German medical student and his girlfriend were taken to the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE) by the infection ambulance of the Hamburg fire department.
What is Marburg virus
Marburg virus disease is caused by the Marburg virus, which belongs to the same family of viruses as the Ebola virus. Like Ebola, Marburg virus causes a severe hemorrhagic fever that affects multiple organ systems and can include profuse bleeding and affects both humans and primates.
The viral infection is a zoonosis, which means that the origin of the disease is transmission from animals to humans. In previous outbreaks, fruit bats have been identified as hosts of Marburg virus, from which the virus is then transmitted to humans.
Marburg virus disease is extremely fatal and highly contagious when there is direct contact with an infected person. In previous outbreaks, case fatality rates ranged from 24% to 88%, with an average case fatality rate of approximately 50%. This means that about half of the people who contract the disease will die from it.
Symptoms often start suddenly, with infected patients experiencing high fever, headache, muscle aches and malaise. It is also common for them to have abdominal pain and cramps and severe watery diarrhea.
This disease, like Ebola, is a hemorrhagic fever in which infected individuals bleed from multiple orifices. Externally, patients may bleed from the nose, gums, and eyes, while internal bleeding manifests as blood in vomit, urine, and stool. Severe blood loss can cause shock and death.
The incubation period – the period from infection to the onset of symptoms – is two days to three weeks. Most symptoms begin within a week, while death occurs eight to nine days after the first symptoms.
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