Why would any doctor infected with measles open a clinic at the epicentre of an outbreak?

A video shows Dr Ben Edwards acknowledging he has measles while he treats patients.
Staff writer
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr with Dr Ben Edwards.
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr (left) with Dr Ben Edwards. Photo: AP.

We reported on Tuesday that a doctor described by Robert F Kennedy Jr as an “extraordinary healer” turned up to work at a makeshift clinic he set up at the centre of the measles outbreak in the US.

He was infected with measles himself, a fact he was well aware of.