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The Trump administration confirmed Wednesday it had fired the head of the top US public health agency after she refused to step down during a standoff with vaccine skeptic Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The escalating dispute over Kennedy's sweeping overhaul of US vaccine policy also led to five…

Susan Monarez, confirmed as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director in July 2025, refused to resign on Wednesday after reports of her removal sparked a major public health controversy.

Mexico reports more than 5,000 cases of screwworm, primarily in cattle and other animals, according to gov’t data.

Lawyers for Monarez say she was ‘targeted’ for ‘protecting the public’ by not endorsing ‘unscientific’ orders

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Susan Monarez is no longer CDC director, according to the Health and Human Services Department, though her attorneys begged to differ.

Kennedy has said he will release his own report on the ‘epidemic’ of autism next month

A person in Maryland has been diagnosed with an infection of the flesh-eating New World screwworm. It's the first case in the U.S. in decades.

Public health officials in Texas were met with little to no response from CDC officials when they first reported a measles outbreak earlier this year, according to a new report

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights

Funny how reality has a way of hitting back.