Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has announced today, October 14, that he and his wife Priscilla Chan are donating $25 million (N4,102,496,779.54) to aid the fight against the deadly Ebola Virus Disease.
Zuckerberg made the disclosure via  Facebook saying that:
"We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn't spread further ... that we end up fighting for decades at large scale, like HIV or polio."
The donation will be used to aid the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Ebola prevention efforts in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which are the hardest hit by the disease.
Billionaire Bill Gates has also committed to spending $50 million on combatting the disease even as he warned that the outbreak could spread beyond West Africa.
The US diagnosed its first case of Ebola on September 30 when an infected Liberian arrived in Texas and died of the disease on October 8, after infecting a 26-year-old nurse.