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More than 1,400 people have died and more than 2,000 have been infected in latest outbreak of Ebola in central Africa, the World Health Organization has said.
The international health body has declared it "very much an emergency" in the region, but says it is not a global threat.
The outbreak is the second-largest in the history of the virus. It follows the 2013-16 epidemic in West Africa that killed more than 11,300 people.
1. Ebola cases are on the rise
So far, more than 1,400 people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo and two in neighbouring Uganda in the latest outbreak, which began in August last year.
A 50-year-old woman died in western Uganda on Thursday, a day after the virus killed her five-year-old grandson. They are the first two cases reported outside DR Congo.
Doctors have confirmed another relative - a three-year-old child who was repatriated to DR Congo from Uganda - has also died.
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