Trump taps AIDS researcher for CDC

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The Trump administration has picked AIDS researcher Robert Redfield to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Redfield has researched HIV and infectious diseases for more than 30 years, but Democrats have called into question his credentials after a probe in the 1990s of his handling of AIDS vaccine data.

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