Facebook CEO,
Mark Zuckerberg, who is estimated to be worth over $30billion had just
announced on today his Facebook team he's donating $25 million to the Centers
for Disease Control Foundation (CDCF)to help fight the deadly Ebola virus.Read
statement 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. Continue..
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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