Operations at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are in jeopardy after the ousting of the CDC director and the resignation of several high-profile agency leaders.

"Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," the Department of Health and Human Services said.

Susan Monarez, the director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is being forced out of her job.

CDC director Monarez challenges her dismissal after less than a month on the job.

She was sworn in less than a month ago, making her the shortest-serving director in the history of the 79-year-old public health agency.

It is unclear why Susan Monarez departed her role as head of the US public health agency.

Susan Monarez, a longtime federal government scientist, was sworn in on July 31.

Shortly after nation’s top public health agency announced Monarez’s departure, three senior CDC officials resigned

Top-level resignations at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention come just after CDC chief Susan Monarez is ousted less than a month into the job

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention left after less than one month on the job, and four top officials with the agencies resigned.

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Susan Monarez was said to have refused to adopt Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stance on vaccination policy.

Meanwhile, multiple other leaders at the CDC submitted their resignations on Wednesday.

Susan Monarez fired while four officials resign amid tensions over vaccine policies and public health directives.

CDC gerät nach der Entlassung von Direktorin Monarez in eine Krise. Mitarbeiter fühlen sich demoralisiert und unsicher.

The director of the nation’s top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job.

Susan Monarez says only Trump can remove her as four other senior CDC leaders quit over political interference

At least three high-level officials have resigned in protest against the policies of Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy.

Four senior officials resign in protest at health secretary’s handling of vaccine policy and agency’s direction

Susan Monarez’s ousting and four top resignations follow vaccine confusion, leaving US health agencies in turmoil

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr has made sweeping changes to the nation's vaccine policies.