Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today became the highest individual making financial donations to the fight against the Ebola disease. Paul Allen, 61 years is worth over $17 billion dollars and founded Microsoft with Bill Gates whom earlier made a pledge of over $50million dollars to fight Ebola.
"Everybody feels called sometimes to really pursue a certain thing that resonates with them, and this has resonated with me. We’re up against an extremely tough opponent here. 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.” Allen told NY Times
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