Exclusive: Microsoft co-founder Allen to give $9 million for Ebola fight

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Exclusive: Microsoft co-founder Allen to give $9 million for Ebola fight

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-microsoft-co-founder-allen-9-million-ebola-204248161.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/KZ7On78z74V1LjV29rjxqA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/cd9cb819c37c1f080b0f6a70670046f5.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this Dec. 13, 2011 photo, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen listens during a a news conference in Seattle." align="left" title="In this Dec. 13, 2011 photo, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen listens during a a news conference in Seattle." border="0" /></a>Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen's charitable foundation on Thursday will announce it is donating $9 million to support U.S. The gift to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) comes at a time when international groups, including Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization, have said resources to contain the epidemic and treat those affected are falling tragically short. Allen said the donation from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation will help CDC establish emergency operations centers in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where the worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed about 2,300 people and shows no sign of slowing six months after it began.</p><br clear="all"/>

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