Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is a cheerful giver, as the scourge of the Ebola Virus travels round the world, He announced on his Facebook page that he's donating $25 million to the Centers
for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola. 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.
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