{"id":9124,"date":"2025-04-02T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9124"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:42:55","slug":"fda-lays-off-bird-flu-leadership-among-steep-cuts-to-senior-veterinarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/02\/fda-lays-off-bird-flu-leadership-among-steep-cuts-to-senior-veterinarians\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA lays off bird flu leadership, among steep cuts to senior veterinarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fda-lays-off-bird-flu-leadership-among-steep-cuts-to-senior-veterinarians\/\">CBS News<\/a> The top veterinarians overseeing the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/bird-flu\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"bird flu response, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bird flu response<\/a>&nbsp;at the Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s Center for Veterinary Medicine were laid off on Tuesday, as part of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hhs-layoffs-federal-agencies-track-disease-regulate-food-health-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"sweeping cuts, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sweeping cuts<\/a>&nbsp;ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the nation&#8217;s health agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of some 10,000 workers laid off Tuesday across the Department of Health and Human Services, more than 130 staff were cut in the FDA&#8217;s veterinary center, multiple officials said. The center oversees medicines and food given in the U.S. to animals, ranging from pets to cattle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials said cuts impacted virtually all of the leadership team in the Center for Veterinary Medicine&#8217;s office of the director, except for the director herself, Tracey Forfa.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fda-lays-off-bird-flu-leadership-among-steep-cuts-to-senior-veterinarians\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News The top veterinarians overseeing the&nbsp;bird flu response&nbsp;at the Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s Center for Veterinary Medicine were laid off on Tuesday, as part of&nbsp;sweeping cuts&nbsp;ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the nation&#8217;s health agencies. Out of some 10,000 workers laid off Tuesday across the Department of Health [&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-9124","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\/9124","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=9124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9125,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions\/9125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}