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The Bild tabloid reported that the coed had arrived by aircraft instantly from Rwanda, the place he’d been involved with a affected person who was later identified as contaminated with Marburg.
Rwanda, a landlocked nation in East Africa, is at the moment experiencing an outbreak of the lethal virus. According to the nation’s well being ministry, eight individuals have died from the virus since final Sunday, whereas 26 instances have been confirmed.
The Marburg virus causes fever with signs together with convulsions, bloody vomiting and diarrhea, and has a mortality fee of as much as 88 p.c, in response to the World Health Organization. People develop into contaminated via contact with the bodily fluids of contaminated victims.
The scholar and his girlfriend have been taken to the Eppendorf University Hospital, which makes a speciality of tropical illnesses. Their baggage was impounded.
