(Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced that Dave Weldon is his choice to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a sweeping U.S. agency with a $17.3 billion budget used as a public health model around the world.
Weldon, 71, is a medical doctor and former lawmaker who served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Florida.
(Reporting by Rami Ayyub; editing by Costas Pitas)
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