About 900% more babies were born with congenital syphilis in Mississippi in 2021 than just four years earlier in 2017, Centers for Disease Control data shows.
Mississippi State Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers is retiring from the Mississippi Department of Health on June 30, the agency announced.
Mississippians concerned they may have been exposed to Monkeypox should speak to their primary care provider about vaccination, with effective post-exposure vaccines available to individuals who meet certain criteria.
Mississippi and the rest of the United States may be in a great COVID-19 undercounting stage, with a surge in transmission that may be late to appear in the official case counts. The consequence may be a growing surge that appears to be persisting in spite of data comparing it to the least infectious days of the pandemic.
The Mississippi State Board of Health has named Dr. Daniel P. Edney the new state health officer, the highest public-health office in Mississippi. Edney will replace the outgoing Dr. Thomas Dobbs as head of the Mississippi State Department of Health on Aug. 1.
After more than three years as state health officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs—the man who led the Mississippi State Department of Health through the COVID-19 pandemic thus far—is set to resign at the end of July.
Mississippi may have arrived at the peak of the omicron wave, with cases and hospitalizations pausing a dizzying climb that began with the new year. But the ongoing surge, combined with significant lingering damage to the health-care system, continues to roil the state’s hospitals and intensive-care units.
The omicron wave is now sweeping over Mississippi, with cases skyrocketing and more concerning indicators, like hospitalizations, rising behind them.
The omicron variant of COVID-19 is spreading rapidly across the U.S., and is driving transmission in states neighboring Mississippi, likely to outcompete the remains of delta in the state after beginning community transmission.
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