The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that it is firing Susan Monarez, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), just weeks after her official confirmation to the post, and days after 600 CDC staff were sacked.
Monarez’s ousting has thrown the US’s top health agency into a leadership crisis as it has prompted an unprecedented wave of high-profile resignations from several other senior officials in protest.
