The founder and Chief Executive Officer
of the popular social networking website,
Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife,
Priscilla Chan, have donated N4bn to
fight the Ebola Virus Disease.
Making the announcement on his
Facebook page, Zuckerberg said they
wanted to stop the epidemic before it got
out of control to become a bigger, and
more expensive, global issue to fight, like
the HIV.
He said, “Priscilla and I are donating $
25m to the Centres for Disease Control
Foundation to help fight Ebola. The
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 one 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
centres, 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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