Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will donate $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola, the Facebook CEO said on Tuesday.
In a post to his official Facebook page, the 30-year-old entrepreneur said the deadly diseaese was at a "critical turning point," and needed to be addressed in the "near term" so as to prevent it from spreading further.
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Zuckerberg said the grant would empower the CDC and experts in the health care community, as well as responders in the frontines, adding that it would hopefully, "help save lives and get this outbreak under control."
