World Bank’s Jim Kim Says Ebola ‘Surprised Everyone’
Agence France-Presse: World Bank chief says Ebola took the world by surprise
“The devastating Ebola outbreak caught the world off guard, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Friday as he questioned the international community’s readiness to respond to other pandemics. ‘This has surprised everyone. None of us thought that Ebola would be looking like it’s looking right now,’ he told reporters in Sydney of the disease which has so far killed more than 2,600 people in West Africa…” (9/19).
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