World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim made an impassioned plea Tuesday for thousands more medics to help fight the Ebola epidemic in west Africa, saying it was a global crisis that needed a global response. Kim also warned against knee-jerk panic in response to the highly contagious virus which has killed nearly 5,000 people in the outbreak centred in west Africa. "This is not an African crisis... it is a global crisis," said Kim, who is visiting Ethiopia along with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and African Union chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. "We'll need a steady state of at least 5,000 health workers from outside the region... those health workers cannot work continuously, there needs to be a rotation," Kim said.
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