Rwanda's outbreak of the Marburg virus was declared over this week by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Rwandan government. The announcement by WHO comes after weeks without any new reported cases in the African nation of Rwanda.

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.

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.