Mississippi’s flu rate has crept slightly higher but there are bigger problems in other parts of the country. The CDC says ten states now have more flu activity in Mississippi. That includes two of our neighbors, Louisiana and Alabama. In Mississippi, doctors who report to the State Health Department say they treated more than 16,000 patients during the week ending February 14th, almost 900 of whom had flu-like symptoms for a flu rate of 5.4 per cent. And while that’s the highest so far this season, it’s a lot lower than what we were seeing at this time last year.
Two of the local public health districts saw decreases in their flu rates with the district which includes Attala, Holmes, Carroll and Montgomery counties and much of the Delta dropping under 11 per cent. The district which includes Leake and Neshoba counties fell to 5 per cent, while the district which includes Winston and Choctaw counties remained steady at just over 6 per cent.
