Mark Zuckerberg and Wife Give $25 Million to 'Critical' Ebola Fight
The money will go to the Centers for Disease Control to use "anywhere in the world where Ebola poses a threat to health."
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Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $25 million to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s nonprofit arm to help fight Ebola, saying most governments don’t realize the disease is at a “critical turning point.”
The grant from Zuckerberg and Chan’s donor-adviser fund at Silicon Valley Community Foundation is for the CDC’s Ebola response in the three West African countries most affected -- Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- and “anywhere in the world where Ebola poses a threat to health,” according to an e-mailed statement from the CDC Foundation.