STAT News reports:

HHS is again ordering changes to the CDC website that are at odds with the recommendations of the public health agency’s scientists. The CDC was told to take down a webpage that explained how people who have multiple sexual partners can reduce their risk of contracting mpox. Asked why, an HHS spokesperson said it “was not medically accurate” and didn’t “align with Administration priorities.”

Demetre Daskalakis, a former top CDC scientist who served as deputy coordinator of the Biden administration’s mpox response, disputed the assertion that the information on the webpage was inaccurate. “Providing advice to people that is actionable is what public health should do and we did that,” he said. “The document went through CDC scientific clearance.”

Last fall, HHS told the CDC to stop using the term mpox and revert to calling the disease monkeypox, a term the WHO has advised against using.

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