Deadly virus scare closes tracks at Hamburg rail station – POLITICO

Two passengers suspected of carrying the lethal and highly contagious Marburg virus set off alarm at Hamburg’s main train station on Wednesday afternoon. 

Emergency crews in full protective gear boarded a train from Frankfurt after a 26-year-old medical student and his girlfriend developed flu-like symptoms on the train. Passengers were evacuated and police closed two tracks at the station for several hours before reopening them.

According to the Hamburg Fire Department, one of the two suspected Marburg victims also suffered from mild vomiting. “He then called the fire department because he suspected something was wrong,” a spokesperson told the Die Welt newspaper.