RFK Jr fires top NIH scientist weeks after she files whistleblower complaint

Jeanne Marrazzo's complaint reportedly involved the Trump administration's hostility toward vaccines

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has fired a top scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) just three weeks after she had filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump administration relating to its hostility towards vaccines, according to a report.

Jeanne Marrazzo has been removed from her NIH job, the New York Times reported. She had already been demoted in March from her senior position as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.