Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg and wife, Priscilla Chan donate N4bn to fight Ebola

 Facebook founder and his wife have donated N4bn to foster the ongoing fight against Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). He made the announcement of his facebook page and added that they wanted to stop the epidemic before becomes impossible to contain.

Please read below what he posted:

“Priscilla and I are donating $25m to the Center 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 front line 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.”