In February 2025, the administration terminated approximately ___ probationary CDC employees amid the H5N1 outbreak.

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The February 2025 terminations hit CDC's probationary workforce — roughly 1,270 to 1,300 employees hired or promoted within the prior two years. Because probationary workers have fewer civil service protections, they were among the easiest to remove quickly. Nearly 90 percent of NIOSH's workforce was included. NIOSH is the division responsible for farmworker safety research — exactly the population most exposed to H5N1 through contact with infected dairy cattle and poultry. Some of the terminations were later reversed after legal challenges and HHS intervention.

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