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DHEC reports SC’s first flu related death

Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)– The Department of Health and Environmental Control announced Friday that the state has suffered its first flu-related death of the season. “Sadly, someone from the Midlands region has died from complications due to the flu,” says Dr. Linda Bell, State Epidemiologist and DHEC’s Director of the Bureau of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control. The agency recommends everyone…