DPHHS Encourages Montanans to Prepare for Respiratory Illness this Fall, Winter

As Montana gears up to enter another respiratory illness season, the Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) encourages Montanans to take precautions to help protect against severe symptoms from COVID-19, influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections.

The number of people ill due to respiratory viruses, including COVID-19, influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia, and RSV, is currently low across most of the United States but has increased in recent weeks.

Montana has already begun seeing laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza and DPHHS is reporti...