Former Congressman Dr. Dave Weldon speaks in The Villages, Fla., on May 31, 2012. Reporter President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

Dr. David Weldon, 71, was born in Amityville ... that would have shifted vaccine safety oversight away from the CDC. He also claimed that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal was ...

After President Trump’s first nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) failed to gain traction ...

The White House abruptly abandoned the nomination of Dave Weldon, the former Florida ... the last thing he needs is a controversy about CDC,” Weldon wrote, later adding, “Hopefully they ...

Weldon actively intervened to help anti-vaccine researchers Dr. Mark Geier and his son David access the Vaccine Safety Datalink, a CDC-housed dataset containing patient health records. This raw ...