--- title: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Donates $25 Million to Fight Ebola description: Social network’s CEO and founder makes donation to the Center of Disease Control Foundation canonical: https://time.com/3506341/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-ebola/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-14T15:06:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:28.663Z article:section: Health og:title: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Donates $25 Million to Fight Ebola og:description: Social network’s CEO and founder makes donation to the Center of Disease Control Foundation og:url: https://time.com/3506341/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-ebola/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b96c3af21e52f64/698760ade53aba71264d501c/mark-zuckerberg.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1992 og:image:height: 1121 og:image:alt: Facebook founder Mark Zuckenberg speaks to media after the meeting with Indonesian President-elect Joko Widodo in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 13, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Donates $25 Million to Fight Ebola twitter:description: Social network’s CEO and founder makes donation to the Center of Disease Control Foundation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b96c3af21e52f64/698760ade53aba71264d501c/mark-zuckerberg.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Donates $25 Million to Fight Ebola > Sponsored content. 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TIME's Africa bureau chief Aryn Baker discusses everyday life in the densely packed seaside city of Monrovia, amid chlorine, thermometers and rubber boots – key tools in the fight against the Ebola outbreak._ by [Fortune / John Kell](https://time.com/author/fortune/) ## Fortune / John Kell Fortune Oct 14, 2014 3:06 PM UTC  Facebook founder Mark Zuckenberg speaks to media after the meeting with Indonesian President-elect Joko Widodo in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 13, 2014. Facebook founder Mark Zuckenberg speaks to media after the meeting with Indonesian President-elect Joko Widodo in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 13, 2014. Anadolu Agency—Getty Images by [Fortune / John Kell](https://time.com/author/fortune/) ## Fortune / John Kell Fortune Oct 14, 2014 3:06 PM UTC Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced he will donate $25 million to the Center of Disease Control Foundation, funds meant to help the agency fight Ebola. “The Ebola epidemic is at a critical turning point,” Zuckerberg said in a post on Facebook. “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, who is donating the funds along with his wife Priscilla, said he believed such grants could “directly help the frontline responders” that are responsible for setting up care centers, training local staff and identifying Ebola cases. The 2014 Ebola epidemic is already the [largest in history](http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/), according to the CDC, affecting multiple countries in West Africa. While the CDC says the risk of an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. is very low, fears have escalated, especially after a travel-associated case was diagnosed at the end of September and shortly afterward, a healthcare worker at a Texas hospital who provided care for that patient also tested positive. The patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, [died last week](http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/12/health/ebola/index.html). Zuckerberg isn’t the first deep-pocketed tech titan to donate to the cause. Last month, Bill Gates’s foundation pledged [$50 billion to fight the viral outbreak in West Africa](http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2014/09/Gates-Foundation-Commits-$50%20Million-to-Support-Emergency-Response-to-Ebola). The earliest grants from the Gates Foundation were made to the World Health Organization for emergency operations and research and development and to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF to support Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to buy essential medical supplies and coordinate response activities. [_This article originally appeared on Fortune.com_](http://fortune.com/2014/10/14/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-donates-25-million-to-fight-ebola/?utm%5Fcontent=buffer3c254&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&utm%5Fcampaign=buffer) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] On the surface, Monrovia looks like any other bustling West African city. The streets are clogged with traffic, multiple people share taxis, and at nighttime the roadside bars are stuffed with people watching football games. Barcelona and [ INAUDIBLE ] are some of the favorites. You would never know that this is the epicenter. The outbreak of Ebola. But if you look a little closer, you can see what Ebola's wrought here. This is a friendly country. But no one shakes hands any more. People sit a little bit further apart at church [ INAUDIBLE ] and everyone, everyone is wearing rubber boots. Cuz they're really easy to spray down with a bit of chlorine if you feel like you. There's not much in the way of terrorism here, so you don't see the metal detectors that would be common elsewhere in the world. What you do have is security guards armed with thermometers. One of the first signs of Ebola is a really high temperature. So you get your temperature taken, everywhere you go. Grocery stores, office buildings. I get my temperature taken four or five times a day. Frankly it's kind of comforting. People have started carrying around bottles of chlorine spray that they can spray their hands and their clothes if they come into contact with something. Everywhere you go you have to wash your hands in a solution of chlorine and water. In fact the whole city sort of smells of [ MUSIC ] But in a way that also is comforting cuz you know that's one thing that can stop people [ INAUDIBLE ]. 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