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The threat of a global influenza outbreak is simmering, and public health officials in New Hampshire are preparing for it to boil over.

A strain of avian flu that has been sweeping through Asian poultry farms has made the leap to Europe.

And health officials expect the bug eventually to reach the states.

Today (Tuesday) the state’s Department of Health and Human Services held the second in a series of legislative briefings on how the state is gearing up to combat a potential flu pandemic.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Kerry Grens reports.