New York, US (PANA) – American billionaire, Paul Allen, who owns the Seattle Seahawks, a professional American football franchise based in Seattle, State of Washington, and the Portland Trail Blazers, a top-flight US National Basketball Association (NBA) team, has pledged to donate US$100 million to the fight the deadly Ebola virus.
Mr. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, with the world’s second richest man, Bill Gates, said he is working with the World Health Organization (WHO) to increase its capacity for handling the logistics of transporting international aid workers, as well as establishing a fund to help cover the costs of emergency transportation of the workers.
