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The Mississippi State Department of Health confirmed the first pediatric flu death of the 2024-25 season on Friday, Jan. 24. Have you had a flu shot?

The map of flu activity across the United States continues to darken, both figuratively and literally, as case numbers spike upward in most states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

As the disease rapidly evolves, questions continue to rise: what is the bird flu? Why is this different? What can we do?

The Quitman County coroner and his aunt have been arrested by special agents from the State Auditor’s Office. State Auditor Shad White said Randy Hester

Officials with Mississippi Blood Services (MBS) are asking the community to help address a critical shortage of blood donations by donating blood at the Flowood Donation Center through Saturday, February 1.

The Mississippi state and US federal governments are failing to take steps to prevent cervical cancer deaths for Black women in the Mississippi Delta, the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI) and Human Rights Watch said in a report released today during cervical cancer awareness month.

The map of flu activity across the United States continues to darken, both figuratively and literally, as case numbers spike upward in most states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson (R-Miss.) announced that the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce (MDAC) will begin accepting a new

CDC testing data for the same period reveals that 6.6 percent of COVID-19 tests came back positive, with Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin seeing the highest test positivity rates of any region at 8.9 percent.

The map of flu activity across the United States continues to darken, both figuratively and literally, as case numbers spike upward in most states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create new religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish state-level vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients about the shots.