Paul Allen to Give $100 Million to Tackle Ebola Crisis
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.
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.”
“I got a taste when I was in Kenya a while ago of what medical care was in rural Africa,” Mr. Allen said. “I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.”
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