Mark Zuckerberg may be worth an estimated $33.3 billion, but this is still a pretty sizable donation!

On Tuesday the Facebook founder posted a statement and revealed that he and wife Priscilla Chan are donating $25 million to the CDC to help combat the deadly Ebola outbreak, which has already claimed over 4,000 lives.

Zuckerberg wrote:
    Priscilla and I are donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola. 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. We believe our grant is the quickest way to empower the CDC and the experts in this field to prevent this outcome."


And he's not the only one! Last month, former Microsoft co-founder/fellow billionaire Bill Gates announced that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would donate $50 million to help fight the disease. Their donations will be going towards United Nations agencies and other global organizations, including $5 million to the World Health Organization, $5 million to UNICEF and $2 million to the CDC.