How worried should you be about the flu in Georgia?

What to know:

• The season is running late; it looks to be picking up right now.
• Georgia is among the states with the highest prevalence of flu.
• The strain in Georgia — and the South in general — is different than what’s in the rest of the country. It’s the H3N2 version that hit the country so hard last year. (Most of the country is seeing the less-deadly H1N1 strain.)

Georgia Health News has more.

Down, down, down

The U.S. cancer rate, that is — for 25 years in row.

Elsewhere: California’s big drug-pricing change

California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, signed an executive order on his first week at the job:

It directed California’s massive Medicaid system to negotiate prescription drug prices for all of its 13 million recipients, changing their benefits from a managed-care or HMO approach to one that allows the state to handle all the purchases.

But wait, there’s more: It also allows private companies to ‘piggyback’ on those negotiations, giving the buyer’s block even more clout to demand lower prices.

Elsewhere: NYC guarantees healthcare

The City of New York will guarantee healthcare for all its residents. Every one, including undocumented immigrants.

What’s worse than Zika?

Not a riddle — a new mosquito-borne virus to be afraid of: the Rift Valley fever virus.