Whatever is happening on the Hamburg trains, let’s not jump any conclusions, give any benefit of the doubt, or believe any official pronouncements just yet.
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.
The Bild tabloid reported that the student had arrived by plane directly from Rwanda, where he’d been in contact with a patient who was later diagnosed as infected with Marburg.
If this thing came from Rwanda and it has an 88% mortality rate, then we should quickly see a large die-off in that African country. And then possibly something similar in Europe. Or not. Eyes open, read, and think. No C19 2.0, friends.