Overview
- In Hesse’s Wetterau district, Rockenberg’s infected farm had more than 2,600 birds culled as authorities set a 3-kilometre protection zone and a 10-kilometre surveillance zone with housing rules.
- Those Hesse zones cover over 50 small holdings in the inner ring and nearly 600 operations in the wider area, including parts of Butzbach, Bad Nauheim, Münzenberg, Wölfersheim, Ober-Mörlen, Friedberg and the Gießen district.
- In Lower Saxony’s Grafschaft Bentheim, bird flu was confirmed in one of ten barns at a large layer farm, prompting the cull of about 120,000 hens while intensified monitoring reports no further suspected cases so far.
- Around the Lower Saxony site, protection and surveillance zones now include roughly 280 poultry holdings with about 2.5 million birds under heightened checks and sampling by the veterinary authority.
- In Bavaria’s Straubing-Bogen district, the Geiselhöring case led to the cull of 69 remaining birds after 24 died, the creation of a 10-kilometre surveillance zone, movement restrictions, and renewed calls for strict farm biosafety and public avoidance of dead or sick wild birds.