Facebook now has a Ebola fund-raising campaign button

The popular social-networking site comes added with a button designed to make it easier for its users to donate to charities for those who are battling this deadly virus. In a bid to boost Internet and phone services to affected areas in West Africa, Facebook is also deploying 100 satellite communication terminals in the region.

The move was taken after Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated a sum of $25 million last month to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention toward the Ebola response.

The social networking site also reveals that over the coming week, its users will see an option to donate to three nonprofits fighting Ebola. The company is also sending WiFi terminals to provide Internet and voice-calling access to remote areas of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Earlier, Symantec had reported that the Ebola virus was being used as bait to spread malware.