Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla donate $25 million to fight Ebola

FACEBOOK founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla have announced they are donating $25 million to help fight Ebola.

There is no Ebola cure yet, but Mr Zuckerberg’s money will help that become a reality.

FACEBOOK founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced on Tuesday that they are donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to fight Ebola.

Zuckerberg revealed the donation in a post on Facebook (of course), the site that has made him into the $33 billion man he is today.

In a status update, Zuckerberg compared the disease to Polio and HIV, noting that 8,400 people have already been infected by Ebola and that it has the potential to spread quickly. Here’s his full update:

“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 centres, training local staff, identifying Ebola cases and much more.

We are hopeful this will help save lives and get this outbreak under control.”

There is no cure for Ebola yet, but the chairman for the CDC said earlier this month that he is “confident” the United States will not experience an Ebola outbreak.

Fellow tech billionaire Bill Gates announced last month that his foundation would give $50 million to fight Ebola, the largest donation that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has ever made to a humanitarian cause.

This story originally appeared on the Huffington Post.