World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for pandemics warns bank chief

WASHINGTON D.C., United States, Wednesday February 11, 2015 – World Bank president Jim Yong Kim says the world is “dangerously unprepared” for future pandemics and lessons need to be learned from the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Speaking at the inaugural Global Futures Lecture at Georgetown University in Washington, Mr Kim said it was vital that governments, aid agencies, corporations and insurance companies work together to prepare for future outbreaks.

“The Ebola outbreak has been devastating in terms of lives lost and the loss of economic growth,” he said in his lecture ‘essons from Ebola: Toward a post-2015 strategy for pandemic response.’

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