While animal health experts are carefully watching for signs of an autumn outbreak of avian flu, it is also a public health concern.
Deb Scholten is Director of the Northeast Nebraska Public Health Department in Wayne. She says they worked with employees at the poultry farms in Dixon County that were hit with the avian flu last spring…………

Scholten says they had extensive contacts with the workers on the facilities that had to deal with the avian flu………

Thousands of chickens were destroyed after those flocks were infected.
Scholten says there is always concern about an animal virus making the jump to humans…………

There is concern that migrating birds will bring another round of avian flu as they make their way south this fall.