San Francisco - Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, would donate $25-million to the Centres for Disease Control Foundation to fight Ebola.
“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 said in a Facebook post.
The death toll in the outbreak, first reported in Guinea in March, has reached 4 447 from a total of 8 914 cases, World Health Organisation Assistant Director General Bruce Aylward said on Tuesday. - Reuters