Fight Against Ebola: $25M Donation from Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan

Photo from Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Profile

As Ebola virus continues to spread around the globe, there is a greater  need of cash support for combating the spread of the virus and for research and study for antidotes to thevirus. This viral disease that started in Africa has already entered in the US and Spain, and is spreading very fast that it needs more serious action and funding.

The Center for Disease Control Foundation needs more and more support for its battle against Ebola. Its a great news and a big help for CDCF after Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook has announced in his post in Facebook the he and her wife Priscilla Chan is donating $25M to CDCF for the fight against Ebola.

Here is the content of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook post:

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.
To learn more about the fight against Ebola: http://www.cdcfoundation.org/ebola-outbreak