Despite the warmer weather, some people in Mississippi are still getting the flu. In the latest Health Department report for the week ending April 12, the statewide flu rate held steady at 2.2 per cent. That’s the percentage of patients in doctors’ offices with flu-like symptoms, a total of 78 people for the week. The flu rates in the local public health districts are slightly higher, at 2.6 per cent in the district which includes Leake and Neshoba counties and 7 per cent in the district which includes Attala and Holmes counties. But those numbers are a far cry from what they had been just a few weeks ago.
If this year’s flu season follows last year’s pattern, we may see a couple of slight increases in cases between now and the middle of May before the season winds down completely.
