Pressure has mounted on US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr after the firing of the director of the top public health agency in the United States Mandel NGAN

Nine former leaders of the top US health body sounded the alarm Monday about the Trump administration's evisceration of the agency and warned that vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr is "endangering every American's health."

The blunt guest essay in The New York Times marks the latest in snowballing attacks on the US health secretary after the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was recently fired by President Donald Trump after just weeks in her post.

Susan Monarez was fired last week after

"We ran the CDC: Kennedy is endangering every American's health," warned the opinion

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