Suspected Marburg cases in Germany were false alarms: Officials

Two folks lately returned to Germany from Rwanda who feared they’d contracted the lethal Marburg virus have examined adverse, well being officers in Hamburg mentioned Thursday.

Medical doctors had positioned the 2 in isolation Wednesday after one in all them mentioned she feared she had caught the Ebola-like illness, which has wrought havoc in a number of outbreaks in jap Africa.

“The 2 folks transported yesterday to Hamburg Central Station for examinations in a division specializing in extremely contagious infectious ailments on the College Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf examined adverse for the Marburg virus,” the authorities mentioned in an announcement.

One of many two folks was a medical scholar who had labored in a hospital in Rwanda the place sufferers have been being handled for Marburg, in response to an earlier assertion.

Based on German media stories, she is a medical scholar in her 20s who reported flu-like signs and light-weight nausea.

The 2 contacted medical doctors, have been taken to hospital and stored in isolation whereas being examined.

The authorities in Rwanda mentioned late Tuesday that the dying toll from the outbreak there had risen to 11, with 29 confirmed circumstances for the reason that outbreak began on September 27.

The Africa Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention mentioned Tuesday that the majority of these contaminated have been well being staff.

Marburg is a part of the so-called filovirus household that additionally contains Ebola, which has wreaked havoc in a number of earlier outbreaks in Africa.

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