NEW YORK: Now philanthropist from all over the world have come up with the aim to weed out Ebola as second youngest billionaires and Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg along with his wife Dr Priscilla Chan have donated $27 million to help control the deadly epidemic.
The money will be spent in Ebola-hit African countries including Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and other parts of the world where to contain the disease.
“The Ebola epidemic is at a critical turning point. As it has infected 8,400 people so far, but it is spreading very quickly and projections suggest it could infect one million people or more over the next several months if not addressed,” Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page.
