Douglas County medical, law enforcement and emergency management officials met in mid-April to discuss how to handle a pandemic avian flu outbreak.

The discussion was part of a series of terrorism exercises in Douglas County at the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, 200 Maine.

“We need to know what it will take for all of us to work together and get through a situation like this if it were to happen,” Douglas County Emergency Management director Paula Phillips said. “It helps us understand the different parts of investigation for law enforcement and health officials and how those groups can help each other if this type of situation were to happen.”