Flu Season May Be Winding Down in MS

Has Mississippi’s flu season peaked for the last time? Maybe.  One thing’s for sure, flu cases, at least for now, continue their downward trend, dropping significantly for the second week in a row.  The Health Department’s latest numbers, for the week ending February 28^th, show reports of 450 suspected flu cases across the state compared to more than 600 the week before and almost 900 the week before that.  It’s a flu rate of 3.4 per cent, the lowest since mid-January.  Two of the public health districts in this part of the state saw their flu rates cut in half with the district which includes Leake and Neshoba counties dropping to 2.3 per cent and the district which includes Winston and Choctaw falling to 3.6 per cent.  In the district which includes Attala, Holmes, Montgomery and Carroll counties and much of the Delta, the flu rate edged downward slightly, still at almost 8 per cent.  The CDC is now classifying flu activity in Mississippi as “low” with only six states having less flu than were are.   And we’re a lot better off than our neighboring states.  Arkansas is experiencing “moderate” flu and it’s still at “high” levels in Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana.