The departures were announced at a meeting of agency senior leaders. The Atlanta-based CDC has two dozen centers and offices.

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, issued an urgent alert about dengue fever, a painful and sometimes deadly mosquito-borne illness common in tropical and subtropical ...

(Photo by Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images ... including 18% of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 15% of FDA employees, 6% of National Institutes of Health ...