# 857
Over the past two days, the papers have been full of assurances that the bird flu `scare' in the UK was over. No more human infections had been reported, and no new outbreaks in poultry.
Of course, that was yesterday. This is today.
10:05pm today
Bird flu has been discovered at a farm which purchased birds from a market linked to an earlier outbreak, the Government has revealed.
Tests found 22 chickens and three ducks tested positive for avian flu at the farm in St Helens, Lancashire, said the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
The new cases are being linked to the outbreak in north Wales last month where contaminated birds were traded at the Chelford market. Tests have confirmed the virus is the less aggressive H7N2 strain rather than the more pathogenic H5N1 variety.
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