Paul Allen to Give $100 Million to Tackle Ebola Crisis
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Source: NYT
The billionaire Paul G. Allen said on Thursday that he would donate $100 million to the fight against Ebola, which has killed almost 5,000 people so far and crippled Western Africa.
The amount roughly quadruples his earlier commitment of about $26 million to nonprofit groups and government agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making him one of the largest individual donors in the Ebola crisis.
“Everybody feels called sometimes to really pursue a certain thing that resonates with them, and this has resonated with me,” Mr. Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, said in a telephone interview on Thursday.
He said when he first began hearing about the Ebola outbreak in July, he had a “nagging sense” that it could spiral out of control. “We’re up against an extremely tough opponent here,” he said. “The exponential nature of the growth of this disease is really a challenge — we’ve already seen in the U.S. where one case quickly became two.”
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/business/paul-allen-to-give-100-million-to-tackle-ebola-crisis.html?_r=0
This is a BFD.. Mahalo Paul Allen!
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Humanity at it's best, Cha.
Ebola Vaccine created, she. Since we can't count on Congress to give the CDC proper funding. 
Our Congress are a bunch of greedy assholes that care NOTHING for the people.
We need to vote them the hell out!
Cha
Love that Allen stepped up handsomely 
I remember hearing about that one - http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/14/technology/zuckerberg-ebola/
Gates (through the Gates Foundation which includes Warren Buffet's contribution to the foundation) apparently did it back in September - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/bill-gates-foundation-ebola_n_5811592.html
Total from the 3 is $175 million...
and TGIF! 
