Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Susan Monarez warned senators that America’s public health system is headed to a "dangerous place" under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vaccine advisers.

During a Wednesday Senate hearing, Monarez and former CDC Chief Medical Officer Chief Debra Houry described exchanges in which Kennedy or political advisers rejected data supporting the safety and efficacy of vaccines, the Associated Press reported.

Monarez told senators deadly diseases like polio and whooping cough, long contained, could make a comeback in the U.S.

"I believe preventable diseases will return, and I believe we will have our children harmed by things they don’t need to be harmed by," Monarez said before the Senate health committee.

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