Overview
- Brandenburg’s environment office estimates more than 1,000 crane deaths at the Linum roost, with teams still collecting carcasses and a new suspected case reported in Oberhavel.
- The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut confirmed H5N1 in crane samples from Mecklenburg‑Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony‑Anhalt and Thuringia and raised the risk level for wild birds and poultry to high.
- Outbreaks in agriculture prompted culls of over 9,000 birds at two Brandenburg farms, while Mecklenburg‑Vorpommern plans to kill about 150,000 laying hens at two confirmed sites; additional cases were noted in Niedersachsen and other states.
- Authorities imposed housing orders for poultry, access bans at hotspots such as the Kelbra shoreline, and protection and surveillance zones with transport restrictions around affected farms.
- Public‑health agencies assess low risk for the general population but low‑to‑moderate risk for exposed workers, as FLI conducts genetic analyses and urges rapid carcass removal and strict biosecurity.