FILE PHOTO: A mother of a child, suspected of dying from Ebola, cries near her child's coffin in Beni, North Kivu Province of Democratic Republic of Congo, December 17, 2018. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/File Photo
GENEVA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak has spread southwards into an area with high security risks, the World Health Organization said.
The outbreak, the country's worst, has killed 439 of the 713 people believed to have caught the disease. The fight against Ebola depends on tracing people who may have had contact with the disease and could fall ill and spread it further.
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