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. 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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