Facebook founder Zuckerberg donates $25 million to fight Ebola crises

Facebook founder Zuckerberg donates $25 million to fight Ebola crises

Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine,  and USAfrica multimedia networks, Houston. Follow USAfrica at Facebook.com/USAfricaChido , Facebook.com/USAfrica247 and Twitter.com/Chido247

USAfrica, Houston: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced today Tuesday October 14, 2014, their commitment to donate $25 million to the U.S Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight the Ebola virus which is devastating parts of west Africa – especially Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

The philanthropist and technology visionary notes that “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.”
He declared in a statement on his Facebook page that “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.”

USAfricaonline.com publishes Zuckerberg’s statement, below:
“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.”

Before Zuckerberg, on September 10, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (established by Microsoft founder Bill Gates) made an immediate donation of $50 million to the United Nations agencies and international organizations engaged in local efforts against Ebola.

The first patient diagnosed in the U.S with the Ebola virus has died in Dallas, Texas, on September 30, 2014. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas announced that the Liberian, Thomas Eric Duncan, who was admitted to the

hospital on September 28 was pronounced dead at 7:51 a.m, today (US CSTime). On September 19, Mr. Duncan boarded a flight to the U.S departing from Liberia after being screened for Ebola symptoms.

USAfricaonline.com notes that Duncan remained a point of controversy as the Liberian government denounced his failure to fully and properly disclose his health condition.  His family members remain under “quarantine.” According to the doctors, the family members have not showed the symptoms of the ebola virus and will remain under monitoring and isolation until October 19.

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