World Bank sees financial impact of Ebola at as much as $32.6 bln in Africa

Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim delivers remarks at Howard University's School of Business in Washington October 1, 2014.

'The enormous economic cost of the current outbreak to the affected countries and the world could have been avoided by prudent ongoing investment in health systems-strengthening,' World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said in a statement.

(Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Louise Ireland)

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