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  • MS: Southern Miss health officials urge campus flu vaccinations; 'sudden' outbreak

    Source: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/s...ted/625073001/

    Southern Miss health officials urge campus flu vaccinations; 'sudden' outbreak
    Ellen Ciurczak, American Staff Writer Published 12:44 p.m. CT Sept. 1, 2017 | Updated 12:53 p.m. CT Sept. 1, 2017

    The University of Southern Mississippi's health center is holding special Labor Day weekend hours after nearly 90 cases of flu were diagnosed on campus in 10 days.

    "Positive flu cases began appearing in our Moffitt Health Center on the Hattiesburg campus on Aug. 21," the center's executive director, Melissa Roberts, said in an email. "We sent a viral culture to the Mississippi Department of Health/CDC and the results came back as a common strain of flu.

    "As of noon on (Thursday), we have treated 88 individuals who tested positive for the flu."...

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