Mark Zuckerberg donates $25million to help fight Ebola

Facebook founder and the 13th richest person in the
world, Mark Zuckerberg, estimated to be worth over
$30billion just announced on his Facebook page that
he's donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease
Control Foundation to help fight Ebola.

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read the statement he released...

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 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.