While the Ebola infections in Texas are taking up most of the headlines, public health officials are also carefully watching the wide spread of another outbreak.

Deb Scholten, head of the Northeast Nebraska Public Health Department in Wayne, says the enterovirus D68 has spread across the country…

 

At least two children have died from complication related to EV – D68.

Scholten says there are some common sense things we can all do to slow the spread of EV – D68 along with many other bugs…

 

Scholten says one of the best measures to slow down the spread of infections is difficult to do…

 

The Centers for Disease Control says there have been outbreaks of enterovirus of some type since 1987.