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Counties where residents suffer from higher diabetes rates across the Deep South often also face greater poverty, food insecurity and barriers to health care and physical activity, a new University of Mississippi study reveals.

A potentially deadly disease caused by a soil-dwelling bacterium long found in tropical regions may be slowly gaining a foothold in the continental United States and other regions around the world. The discovery of the bacterium in Mississippi is raising new questions about how doctors should identify infections and track its spread.