After dropping for three straight weeks, Mississippi’s flu rate has nudged back up. The State Health Department’s latest report for the week ending March 1st, shows that the percentage of patients in doctor’s offices with flu-like symptoms was 5.3 per cent, up from 5 per cent even the week before. And there’s been a substantial increase in flu cases in the public health district which includes Attala and Holmes counties where the flu rate has jumped from around 21 per cent to more than 30 per cent. In the district which includes Leake and Neshoba counties, the flu rate continues a steady drop, now at 4 per cent.
