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.