Diseases: Ex-US authorities warns of the return of measles and Co.

The former head of the US health authority CDC warns of a return of avoidable diseases in the United States. If vaccination recommendations and measures were changed without resilient data, the flame of children’s paralysis, measles, diphtheria or whooping cough threatens, Susan Monarez said at a hearing in the US Congress. The country has just experienced the largest measles wave in more than 30 years in which two children had died.

Monarez was appointed CDC leader by President Donald Trump at the end of July and was confirmed by the Senate shortly afterwards. However, her term of office only lasted 29 days. According to Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr., she was pushed out of her role because she refused to disregard scientific standards. The minister had requested that you to have vaccination recommendations in advance and without testing and dismissed experts.

“I could have kept the office and the title, but I would have lost the only thing that could not be replaced: my integrity,” said the microbiologist and immunologist. Several high -ranking managers also resigned in the course of their discharge.

Minister of Health is a vaccination skeptic

The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is responsible for protection against infectious diseases in the United States. After the dismissal of Monarez, Kennedy hired his confidante Jim O’Neill as an interim manager. This means that the minister has little resistance to his vaccination policy.

Kennedy is considered a pronounced vacceptic. Critics accuse him of repeatedly spreading doubts about vaccinations and spreading false information. It was only at the beginning of August that the Minister drew funds for the development of certain MRNA vaccines.

Experts are afraid of violence

In the hearing, Monarez also referred to an attack on the CDC headquarters in Atlanta. At the beginning of August, an armed man had given up hundreds of shots and killed a security officer. The perpetrator had been driven by the opposite of the vaccination, said Monarez. She stated that he was threatened herself and expressed the concern that the spread of misleading information could not only heat the health of children, but also the willingness of individual acts.

The former senior CDC officer Debra Houry also surveyed said in the hearing that many experts would no longer speak publicly about vaccinations or delete their names of specialist articles for fear. After ten years, she terminated from ethical concerns. Kennedy accused her of censoring scientific work, politicizing decision -making processes and depriving experts to her independence.