13th richest man in the world and Founder of Facebook, Internet
entrepreneur, Mark Zuckerberg has donated towards the fight against
Ebola.
Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement in a Facebook post.
Read post below…..
Priscilla and I are donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease
Control Foundation to help fight Ebola. The Ebola epidemic is at a
critical turning point. It has infected 8,400 people so far, but it is
spreading very quickly and let projections suggest it could infect 1
million people or more over the next several months if not addressed.
We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn’t
spread further and become a long term global health crisis that we end
up fighting for decades at large scale, like HIV or polio. We believe
our grant is the quickest way to empower the CDC and the experts in this
field to prevent this outcome.
Grants like this directly help the frontline responders in their heroic
work. These people are on the ground setting up care centers, training
local staff, identifying Ebola cases and much more. We are hopeful this
will help save lives and get this outbreak under control.
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