The Louisiana Department of Health is urging caution after a fifth person has died from Vibrio vulnificus infection. 26 Louisiana residents have been infected this year. Vibrio naturally live in coastal waters and are found in higher numbers in the warmer months of May through October. State Epidemiologist Theresa Sokol says it’s a severe disease.
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She says avoid exposure by covering open wounds with waterproof bandages when in the water and don’t eat raw or undercooked seafood from the warm Gulf waters.
LSU in Baton Rouge has their largest Freshman class in history and Interim president Matt Lee says for the first time in history, LSU’s research enterprise has crossed the 500-million mark.
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U-S Representative Julia Letlow tells a Baton Rouge radio station she will not challenge Bill Cassidy for one of Louisiana’s Senate seats. Jeff Palermo has the story.
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Deputies in Terrebonne Parish have arrested two men for the 2015 murder 56-year-old Pamela Johnson. Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Tim Soignet (SOIN-yay) says detectives recently got their big break arrested Johnson’s husband, 70-year-old Charles Johnson along with 43-year-old Shannon Robinson.