Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have
committed $25 million to fight Ebola.
They want to stop the epidemic before it spirals
further out of control and becomes a bigger (and more expensive) global issue
to fight, like HIV. Read his statement below as announced on his Facebook page:
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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