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.
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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