Health officials met at Coconino County and at Northern Arizona University in separate meetings on Monday to discuss the next steps in responding to pandemic flu.

The county has an emergency plan, drafted over the past few years, that outlines possible travel and other restrictions if the avian and swine flu enters northern Arizona.

Which, if any, of those options to activate was discussed Monday and will be on the agenda when the meeting continues today.

Officials are looking to establish protocols for whom to treat with limited medical supplies and when to order employees and students to stay home from school and work.

A week before finals, Northern Arizona University administrators were also discussing Monday what to do if the more severe variety of the flu strikes here.

Bulletins have recently been posted in dorms to tell students to call a health care professional and not attend class if sick with what seems to be the flu.

"There's some more meetings planned on what if, IF, a student gets it," said Tom Bauer, a university spokesman. "We would need to investigate where the student had traveled, and possibly isolate them."

He emphasized that there were no known infections in Arizona as of mid-Monday, and none on the NAU campus.

If it were ever needed, the most likely quarters identified for isolating patients there would be at the former inn on the north campus.