CDC, Rfk Jr. and vaccine
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By Stephanie Brown HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have issued a Salmonella outbreak alert linked to pistachio cream.
About three dozen of the nearly 1,200 measles infections in 2025 have been in people with two measles vaccine doses, the CDC says.
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Agency tells court that states are not suffering "irreparable harm" from cuts even as agency leaders lament "operational disruptions" and "loss of expertise and capacity."
All 17 experts recently dismissed from a government vaccine advisory panel published an essay Monday decrying “destabilizing decisions" made by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that could lead to more preventable disease spread.
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The demonstration came a day after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gutted a federal vaccine safety panel and vowed to replace all its members.
The government hired back more than 450 CDC employees that were fired as part of the widespread restructuring that took place in April.
The scientist, Dr. Fiona Havers, told colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday that she no longer had confidence that the COVID and RSV data would be used "objectively or evaluated with appropriate scientific rigor to make evidence-based vaccine policy decisions," according to an email seen by Reuters.
The interim leadership of the CDC held its first all-hands meeting of the Trump administration, and STAT listened in.