Overview
- On Rügen, an outbreak in Poseritz led officials to cull about 33,000 birds and establish protection and surveillance zones with strict hygiene rules.
- In the Leipzig district, the state lab confirmed avian influenza at a large goose-breeding site in Mutzschen, prompting the culling of roughly 6,500 breeding geese while retail sales of Christmas geese from other locations continue.
- Leipzig’s veterinary authority ordered the killing of the zoo’s remaining seven Dalmatian pelicans after new cases emerged, following earlier negative tests on about 350 other birds and new on-site biosecurity steps.
- The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut reports declining national case counts but maintains a high infection risk because the virus continues to circulate in wild birds, with crane die-offs largely abated.
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern expects compensation payouts to surpass the usual annual level, and regional leaders and producers are urging a broader discussion of vaccination alongside biosecurity.