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Health officials say there are no signs of person-to-person transmission and contact tracing is being done as a precaution.

Both had been in contact with infected birds

Neither has experienced any symptoms of avian influenza

The UK Health Security Agency said neither person showed any symptoms of illness.

We have the tools to prepare, but post-Covid fatigue and a lack of political will mean they aren’t being used, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at Edinburgh University

Black-headed gulls died, it is not believed any other species of birds are affected

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