By Elizabeth Cooney, Chelsea Cirruzzo, and Helen Branswell
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The White House's mass firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with the cuts.
Almost the entire staff behind the CDC's flagship publication, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, has been fired. The report is typically one of the first places where information about U.S. disease outbreaks is disseminated before appearing in other journals and publishes information on a wide variety of critical public health issues.
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