By MIKE STOBBE

NEW YORK (AP) — The director of the nation’s top public health agency is out after less than one month in the job, U.S. officials announced Wednesday.

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“Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wrote in a statement posted on social media.

HHS officials did not explain why Monarez is no longer with the agency.

Before the announcement was made, Monarez told The Associated Press: “I can’t comment.”

The Washington Post first reported she was ousted, citing unnamed sources within the Trump administration.

Monarez, 50, was the agency’s 21st director and the first to pass through Senate confirmation fol

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