Trump continues Ebola rant on Twitter

Donald Trump continued his latest Twitter rant on Tuesday, criticizing U.S. health officials for evacuating two Ebola-infected American health workers from Liberia and transporting them to the United States for treatment.

"We should not be importing the disease to our homeland," the billionaire real estate mogul wrote to his 2.65 million followers between tweets promoting his golf resorts and signature neckties.

The NBC reality show host and once-prominent birther even managed to shoehorn a barb about the border crisis into his Ebola barrage.

Trump's Ebola comments were dismissed by doctors, Twitter users — and even ethics professors.

"This kind of reaction is, unfortunately, nothing new for the United States," Paul Root Wolpe, a bioethics professor at Emory University in Atlanta, wrote on CNN.com. "The American fear that an epidemic was corrupting our health, our morals, or our children has inspired movements to ban the waltz, rock and roll, romance novels, comic books, and Dungeons and Dragons. Of course, unlike dancing or computer games, disease really can cause epidemics and threaten our health and our lives."

Wolpe compared Trump's reaction to Ebola to the hysteria over AIDS in the late 1980s, despite assurances from health officials who say the risk of Ebola spreading inside the United States is minimal.

"Like Ebola, HIV-AIDS is not spread casually. But also like Ebola, AIDS was first associated with a minority population feared by many in the majority. Infection seems somehow all the worse when spread by those we fear or disdain," Wolpe wrote. "American citizens, especially those who become sick through service to the needy in other parts of the world, need to know that America stands ready to welcome them back and to care for them as best we can."

Last week, Trump suggested the sick health workers should "suffer the consequences" of traveling to West Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic.

Whoopi Goldberg, who calls Trump a "friend," fired back on "The View."

“I'm not defending him, but he is also a friend of mine, so I don't want to be disrespectful to him, but that was a stupid comment,” Goldberg said. "Do your homework, Donald. Just do your homework."

According to the World Health Organization, there have been 1,663 cases and 887 deaths from the Ebola virus reported across in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria since February.

But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say even if a person infected with Ebola travels to the United States, the risk of the disease spreading is remote, in part because the virus can be spread only through direct contact with blood or other bodily fluids, and U.S. doctors have been instructed to treat such patients in isolation.