The union for employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that misinformation surrounding vaccines is creating a dangerous environment in which to do their work.

The union asked leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services to condemn vaccine disinformation following a shooting at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta in which the gunman claimed the COVID-19 vaccine made him depressed and suicidal.

“The deliberate targeting of CDC through this violent act is deeply disturbing, completely unacceptable, and an attack on every public servant,” a local division of the American Federation of Government Employees union, said in a statement . "It was motivated by vaccine disinformation, which continues to pose a dangerous threat to public health and safe

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