Overview
- Lower Saxony reports 32 outbreaks in poultry operations with about 682,000 birds dead or culled, stall housing now applies in 23 districts and no farm‑to‑farm transmission has been verified.
- In Vechta county, roughly 175,000 laying hens are set to be killed following a new outbreak, the sixth there in about ten days, after 150,000 birds were culled last week.
- Bavaria’s health lab detected avian influenza in wild swans and a goose in Donau‑Ries and Influenza A in a goose and a mallard in Fürstenfeldbruck, with samples sent to the Friedrich‑Loeffler‑Institut for confirmation and pathotyping.
- Conservation reports from Saxony‑Anhalt point to severe crane mortality—about 2,000 carcasses recovered—while the state advises exceptional euthanasia of severely ill cranes under permit to prevent suffering and limit spread.
- Lower Saxony’s animal‑welfare commissioner questions mass culling and urges preventive options that would require EU rule changes, as industry groups reject claims commercial farms drive virulence and veterinary offices stress strict reporting and hygiene.