By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - West African nations neighbouring those hit by the Ebola epidemic - Mali, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Guinea Bissau - should prepare for the possible arrival of travellers carrying the deadly virus, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The outbreak persists especially in forested areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and its spread is being fueled by unsafe burial practices that infect relatives handling bodies, the U.N. agency said. "We want other countries in West Africa to be ready - bordering countries, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, Guinea Bissau - to prepare themselves in case people affected with the disease may be also travelling," WHO medical officer Dr. Pierre Formenty told a briefing in Geneva.
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