“Why did Dr. Brantly have to go to Africa? The very first ‘risk factor’ listed by the Mayo Clinic for Ebola — an incurable disease with a 90 percent fatality rate — is: ‘Travel to Africa.’ Can’t anyone serve Christ in America anymore?”
— Conservative pundit Ann Coulter, quoted by The Hill, blaming Dr. Kent Brantly for contracting the Ebola virus while working in Liberia because he wanted to be seen as “heroic.”
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