The World Health Organization and the Rwandan government have declared the outbreak in Rwanda of the Ebola-like Marburg fever over after no new cases were registered in recent weeks.

Rwanda has declared an end to the country's Marburg virus outbreak following the recovery of the last patient 42 days ago, Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana told a news conference on Friday. The East African country confirmed its first cases of the disease,

It’s the kind of news no-one wants to pick up the phone to share, and no-one wants to pick up the phone to hear. The Marburg virus, which causes a highly lethal viral haemorrhagic fever, had emerged in a country that had never seen it before.