Newly reported 2025 health risk data for Chattooga County shows two ongoing challenges that can affect long-term health and access to care: adult obesity and a high share of residents without health insurance. Local health leaders say both factors can contribute to higher rates of chronic disease and make it harder for people to get preventive services before problems become emergencies.
The Georgia Department of Public Health has confirmed the state’s first measles case of 2026 involving an infant who was too young to receive the routine measles vaccination. Health officials say the baby, who lives in Georgia’s Coastal Health District, contracted the virus while traveling internationally and is now the focus of an exposure investigation.
As the new year begins, Georgia is seeing one of the highest rates of flu-associated hospitalizations in the nation, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Georgia Department of Public Health.
Georgia health officials have introduced a $1.4 billion, five-year plan aimed at improving health outcomes in rural communities through the federal Rural Health Transformation Program, created in this summer’s budget reconciliation law.
Here are the latest health inspection scores from the Chattooga County Environmental Health Department for the first half of December, 2025:
