The American doctor who carried the Ebola virus from Guinea to New York, riding the subway and going bowling before symptoms developed, said the public was never properly educated about the disease. Dr Craig Spencer, an emergency room physician, penned an article for Wednesday's New England Journal of Medicine that blamed politicians and media outlets for fanning fears. 'When we look back on this epidemic, I hope we'll recognize that fear caused our initial hesitance to respond - and caused us to respond poorly when we finally did,' Spencer wrote. Slammed: Dr Craig Spencer penned an article for the New England Journal of Medicine attacking the media and politicians for alarmist reports and attempts to use the Ebola outbreak for political gain
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Dr Craig Spencer wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine calling out the governors who imposed a quarantine after his diagnosis
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He said that little of the science behind transmission was explained in the media
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His criticism echoes that of nurse Kaci Hickox, who was quarantined in New Jersey and later Maine after returning from Sierra Leone
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