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That's despite calls from agency staff for Kennedy to tone down such rhetoric after a gunman—who was influenced by vaccine misinformation and the vilification of the public health agency—sprayed the CDC campus with over 500 rounds and killed a local police officer last month.
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Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
4 Sep. 2025
Rather than spraying the formula directly onto her skin, our tester applied it to a cotton round instead.
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