Tag: Mississippi

USDA says it will start testing milk for H5N1 bird flu virus nationwide

Nearly a year after a wild bird infected with H5N1 avian flu presumably passed its viral baggage to a dairy cow in...

See COVID's toll on California's life expectancy in new CDC longevity report

It was the year COVID-19 vaccines became widely available, and the pandemic’s startling death toll in California and elsewhere appeared close to...

Students, Gulf Coast community come together to try and save our Mississippi Sound

On a peninsula in the Back Bay of Biloxi, waves lap onto a barren stretch of shoreline, rotten remains of trees rising from...

Trucker finds abandoned 1-year-old boy alive along highway a day after his sibling was found dead, authorities say

A truck driver found a 1-year-old alive in a ditch off an interstate highway in Louisiana this week, a day after the boy’s...