Facebook
founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg announced on his facebook page that he and his wife, Priscilla
will be donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to
help fight Ebola. His statement is 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 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 front-line respondents 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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