Overview
- New commercial outbreaks in Lower Saxony led to culling about 18,000 turkeys in Lemförde and roughly 2,500 geese in nearby Rehden, plus 10,500 turkeys in Garrel and 44,000 birds at two broiler farms in Rotenburg confirmed by the FLI.
- Niedersachsen reports 32 farm outbreaks since early October with 763,629 birds killed or dead, while Brandenburg confirms more than 170,000 culled and the FLI says nationwide totals are approaching one million since September.
- Counties have set 3‑kilometer protection and 10‑kilometer surveillance zones with movement bans, and multiple regions enforce stallkeeping, including a statewide order in Saarland with fines for violations.
- Wild‑bird detections continue to spread, with confirmed cases in cranes, geese and swans from Bavaria (including Aschaffenburg and Rosenheim) to Schleswig‑Holstein’s Pinneberg and a swan on the Rhine in Baden‑Württemberg.
- Testing demand is stretching labs that prioritize poultry samples over wild‑bird cases, and the Thuringian animal‑disease fund warns compensation payouts are unpredictable and depend on registered flocks.