Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, donates $25 million to aid Ebola crisis

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, alongside his wife, is stepping up to the plate to help aid in the fight against Ebola. Zuckerberg, who is worth $32 billion, is donating $25 million to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control Foundation. On Tuesday morning he announced in a Facebook post:

“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.”

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla aren’t the only ones stepping up to the plate regarding Ebola funding. Back in September, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated $50 million to the cause.

Kudos to the Zuckerbergs for their generous donation and effort to help stop the spread of the deadly disease. If you’d also like to help, here is the link Zuckerberg provided to support the CDC’s response to Ebola epidemic in West Africa. 

Source: http://www.addictinginfo.org