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Approximately 600 employees at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been terminated, Fox News Digital has confirmed.

It comes as part of a major restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services announced in March. At the time, HHS said the CDC would decrease its workforce by approximately 2,400 employees, "with a focus on returning to its core mission of preparing for and responding to epidemics and outbreaks."

A spokesperson for the American Federation of Government Employees told Fox News that roughly 600 CDC employees were receiving final termination notices this week and that the cuts "are across the agency, including the Division of Violence Prevention, EEO, FOIA, the Office of Fin

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