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Austria mourns death of doctor targeted by anti-vaccine campaigners

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Austrian leaders appealed for national unity after a doctor who faced death threats from anti-vaccination activists and coronavirus pandemic conspiracy theorists took her own life. "Let's put an end to this intimidation and fear mongering.

Hate and intolerance have no place in our Austria," said President Alexander Van der Bellen. He hailed Lisa-Maria Kellermayr as a doctor who stood for healing people, protecting them from disease and taking a cautious approach to the pandemic. "But some people have been enraged by this.

And these people scared her, threatened her, first on the internet and then also in person, directly in her practice." The body of the doctor, who had often given media interviews about fighting the coronavirus pandemic and promoting vaccinations, was found in her office in Upper Austria yesterday.

Media cited prosecutors as saying they had found a note and were not planning a post-mortem examination. Austria last month dropped plans to introduce compulsory Covid-19 vaccination for adults, saying it was unlikely that the measure would raise one of western Europe's lowest vaccination rates.

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