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WHO declares Ebola emergency, Ann Coulter rails

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Mary Bruno

Spurred by West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international public health emergency on Friday. The death toll, approaching 1,000, prompted the “extraordinary” response. According to The New York Times, this is only the third time WHO has issued an emergency declaration of this kind.The deadly outbreak prompted a very different reaction from conservative commentator Ann Coulter. As Seattlepi.com columnist Joel Connelly pointed out, Coulter criticized Dr. Keith Brantly, the American doc who picked up Ebola while working in Liberia. (Brantly’s back in the States and recovering.) “Why did Dr. Brantly have to go to Africa?” Coulter asked in a recent column. “The very first ‘risk factor’ listed by the Mayo Clinic for Ebola — the incurable disease with a 90 percent fatality rate — is: ‘Travel to Africa.’ Can’t anyone serve Christ in America anymore?” — M.B.

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Mary Bruno

By Mary Bruno

Mary was Crosscut's Editor-in-Chief and Interim Publisher. In more than 25 years as a journalist, she has worked as a writer, editor and editorial director for a variety of print and web publications,