Overview
- Lower Saxony reported its first confirmed outbreak in the Verden district, where about 2,200 geese were killed and protection and surveillance zones now extend into parts of Diepholz and Nienburg.
- Cloppenburg county confirmed two more infected turkey farms in Garrel; authorities say 20 operations have been affected since mid‑October with roughly 209,000 turkeys and 5,300 ducks culled and strict zones in force.
- Brandenburg tallied 170,200 birds culled within a month and has county-ordered stall housing across the state as thousands of crane deaths were recorded at known resting sites.
- Frankfurt announced a citywide stall order after H5N1 findings in wild birds, Ebersberg instituted a 5‑kilometer stall zone around the Ismaninger Speichersee, and Gladbeck’s first wild-goose case was confirmed by the FLI without new local zones.
- The Kyffhäuserkreis reported fewer dead wild birds but kept restrictions, Unterallgäu euthanized 28 birds in a hobby flock, and Unna urged flock registration and preparedness for possible stall housing.