Overview
- Local authorities on Germany’s Rügen island reported an outbreak at a Poseritz laying-hen farm, leading to the precautionary culling of about 33,000 birds and the establishment of protection and surveillance zones.
- In Saxony, a goose-breeding site in Mutzschen will cull roughly 6,500 breeding geese after the state lab confirmed a suspected case, with final outbreak confirmation by the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut still pending.
- Leipzig’s veterinary authority ordered the killing of all remaining great white pelicans at Zoo Leipzig after confirmed infections and two deaths, with more than 350 other avian tests reported negative and heightened biosecurity in place.
- Spanish regional officials confirmed a highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak behind hundreds of dead storks in the Madrid area, with nationwide poultry confinement still in force and the Rasve network notified.
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern reports losses exceeding 300,000 poultry since the autumn wave, and calls for considering poultry vaccination have intensified from officials and producers facing mounting economic and animal-welfare strains.