Overview
- In Brandenburg’s Märkisch-Oderland, a newly confirmed case at a farm with 10,000 Peking ducks requires the entire flock to be killed, bringing the state to 11 outbreaks in kept birds and roughly 155,000 ducks and geese culled this autumn.
- From Monday, Darmstadt-Dieburg imposes a countywide housing order for poultry and bans shows, markets and exchanges as detections rise in surrounding areas and dead wild birds are found locally.
- The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut confirms the circulating strain as highly pathogenic H5N1 and reports nationwide preventive culls surpassing half a million birds, while the risk to humans from properly handled poultry and eggs remains low.
- Ornithologists report exceptional crane mortality, with about 2,000 carcasses recovered in parts of Saxony-Anhalt and more than 2,200 collected at Linum in Brandenburg, coinciding with peak autumn migration.
- Sector data underscore the stakes: Germany housed 44.6 million laying hens in August that produced 1.2 billion eggs, and 2024 consumption hit records at 13.6 kilograms of poultry meat and 249 eggs per person.