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Directors Who Quit US Health Agency Warn It Is 'Destroying' Protections

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clashed with Susan Monarez before she was sacked as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Credit: AFP)

Senior experts who recently resigned in protest from the top US public health agency denounced Sunday growing politicization of the organization, warning of a breakdown in the "firewall" between science and ideology.

US President Donald Trump plunged American health policy and scientific rigor deeper into crisis this past week when he fired the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Susan Monarez, after less than one month on the job.

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