Overview
- The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut reports 48 outbreaks in commercial holdings since early September with more than 525,000 poultry culled across ten federal states.
- Hamburg’s citywide stall requirement takes effect and Kreis Kleve orders a countywide indoor-keeping mandate with bans on exhibitions and markets.
- In Kamp-Lintfort (Kreis Wesel), about 18,000 turkeys were culled after an H5 finding, and a provisional 10-kilometer restriction zone is being established pending FLI subtype confirmation.
- FLI confirmed H5N1 in a 40,000-bird layer farm in Mansfeld-Südharz, triggering culling already completed and new 3-kilometer and 10-kilometer control zones with sales prohibitions in affected areas.
- Thuringia imposes stricter rules for sales and exhibitions and reports 100 birds culled in Nordhausen linked to contact with an infected crane, while Minister Peter Hauk warns of likely southward spread but sees no food-safety risk or nationwide shortages.