Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has pledged $25 million (£15.7m) to help fight Ebola.
He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating the sum to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Foundation and it will be used to fight the virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and elsewhere in the world where Ebola is a threat.
‘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,’ Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post.
He added: ‘We believe our grant is the quickest way to empower the CDC and the experts in this field to prevent this outcome.’
The donation follows a $9m (5.7m) gift made by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen last month.
Zuckerberg, who is worth an estimated $32 billion (£21b), is making the grant from his fund at the nonprofit Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
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