Dr. Dan Edney, Mississippi’s state health officer, speaks to lawmakers during the Democratic caucus meeting at the State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. The meeting focused on discussing federal cuts to healthcare. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
A Mississippi infant recently died from pertussis, or whooping cough, the State Department of Health announced Monday.
It is the first whooping cough death reported in Mississippi since 2012 and the third since 2008.
Whooping cough cases in Mississippi are the highest they have been in at least a decade.
