networking website, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife, Priscilla
Chan, have donated $25m (about N4bn) to fight the Ebola disease.
Making the announcement on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg said they
wanted to stop the epidemic before it spread further out of control
and becomes a bigger (and more expensive) global issue to fight, like
HIV.
He wrote, "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 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 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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