Austria mourns suicide of doctor targetted by anti-vaccine campaigners

FILE PHOTO: Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen attends a news conference in Vienna, Austria May 23, 2022. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

ZURICH (Reuters) - 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," President Alexander Van der Bellen said, hailing Lisa-Maria Kellermayr as a doctor who stood for healing people, protecting them from disease and taking a cautious approach to the pandemic.