While ebola is gathering most of the attention right now, public health officials say we should be concerned about other, more contagious bugs.

Deb Scholten, who heads up the Northeast Nebraska Public Health Department in Wayne, says the enterovirus D68 is something new this year that is spreading…

 

Scholten says they expect to see more cases of influenza as we get later into fall…

 

Scholten says there should be enough flu vaccine to go around this year. She says the vaccine is made up of strains very similar to last years…

 

Scholten says the target this year is to vaccinate kids because they have determined they are the prime movers of the infection.