CDC employees can no longer publish documents without review by the executive branch and must withdraw their names from external papers pending publication.

By Andrea Shalal, Leah Douglas and Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Almost half of the probationary workers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being forced out as President Donald Trump overhauls government agencies,

The Trump administration is laying off 1,300 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shrinking the public health agency as part of an effort to cut costs across the federal government.