DECATUR, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A day after the apparent firing of the brand new director of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, several high-ranking CDC officials who resigned in her wake received a hero’s welcome as they exited the campus.

Director Susan Monarez abruptly parted ways with the CDC on Wednesday after being confirmed to the position by the U.S. Senate only a month earlier. It was the shortest tenure for a director in the public health agency’s 79-year history.

Several high-ranking department heads swiftly submitted their resignations. Director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Daniel Jernigan, Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science at CDC Debra Houry, Director for the Office of

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