{"id":9104,"date":"2025-04-02T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9104"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:10:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:10:37","slug":"hhs-layoffs-include-staff-overseeing-bird-flu-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/02\/hhs-layoffs-include-staff-overseeing-bird-flu-response\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS layoffs include staff overseeing bird flu response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/other\/exclusive-trump-health-layoffs-include-staff-overseeing-bird-flu-response-source-says\/ar-AA1C6468\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trump administration has fired staff who were working on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s bird flu response as part of its mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a source familiar with the situation. The Tuesday firings, which many employees learned of as they attempted to enter office buildings and were denied access, are part of the administration&#8217;s effort to shrink the size of the federal government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he will fire 10,000 people across the agencies under the health department.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those fired on Tuesday were leadership and administrative staff at the FDA&#8217;s Center for Veterinary Medicine, according to the source, who did not know the exact number of fired employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/other\/exclusive-trump-health-layoffs-include-staff-overseeing-bird-flu-response-source-says\/ar-AA1C6468\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" QM At PYcbwR  JcRicnN\"> QM At PYcbwR  JcRicnN<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters The Trump administration has fired staff who were working on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s bird flu response as part of its mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a source familiar with the situation. The Tuesday firings, which many employees learned of as they attempted to enter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9105,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions\/9105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}