Overview
- Saxony confirmed H5 at a poultry farm in Ebersbach/Lauterbach, leading to the culling of about 8,000 turkeys, 3 km/10 km control zones, and a districtwide stall order and events ban in Meißen.
- In Bavaria, a Geiselhöring outbreak prompted a 10 km surveillance zone and stall duty, four municipalities near the Ismaninger Speichersee received new stall rules, and roughly 80 birds were euthanized at a Germering sanctuary without the need for zones.
- Lower Saxony expanded monitoring after fresh outbreaks in Cloppenburg and Vechta, while a suspected case in Winkelsett (circa 3,800 turkeys) led to precautionary culling pending FLI confirmation.
- Other regions moved to contain spread, including a stall order from November 12 in the Heilbronn area of Baden-Württemberg, a confirmed wild-goose case in Witten, and the killing of 37 birds at a Kamp-Lintfort hobby flock after H5 was detected in ducks within an existing 3 km zone.
- The FLI reports detections in all federal states and more than 70 outbreaks in kept birds since September, with media tallies citing roughly 840,000 birds dead or culled since mid-October, while officials stress low public risk and call for strict PPE and biosecurity and for reporting dead wild birds.