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HIS week’s good news is that bird flu seems to be declining and that the wild birds that have been spreading it are gaining some degree of immunity. It is too early to be certain, not least because, if the mild weather is followed by cold and further wet, the virus may proliferate. Defra has already allowed free-range birds to be kept outside,