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Well, that's what the Scottish authorities are saying this morning.
Farm set to get the all-clear after bird flu alert false alarm
""There has been no outbreak of avian influenza in Scotland" Scottish Government spokeswoman"
By Gareth Rose and Charlotte Bailey
A FARM at the centre of a bird flu scare is set to be given the all-clear after initial tests on diseased poultry came back negative.
It is not known what affected the birds at Easter Norton Farm, near Newbridge, but Government experts do not now believe it is an infectious disease.
A major alert was declared after random tests, carried out by the farm, found "abnormalities" in some of its 15,000-plus chickens on Wednesday.
The discovery led to an immediate shutdown of production, and experts from the Scottish Government and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) were called in to carry out further tests.
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said today: "All the tests so far have come back as negative."
She expected that the final test results would be available on Monday, and restrictions on the farm would remain in place until then.
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