Overview
- Saxony-Anhalt activated a two-tier protection and surveillance zone around a confirmed H5N1 case in Mansfeld-Südharz, where 40,000 laying hens were killed and sales of poultry products in core localities were halted.
- Brandenburg confirmed three additional holdings infected, including a 950-bird goose farm and two small backyard flocks, taking the state’s tally to ten affected holdings and prompting targeted controls.
- Lower Saxony logged further cases, including about 10,000 hens in Diepholz and new turkey outbreaks in Rotenburg (8,800 and 13,800 birds), with culls ordered and 3 km/10 km zones set; officials cite 21 active farm outbreaks in the state.
- NRW authorities culled roughly 18,000 turkeys or hens at a Kamp-Lintfort farm and set a large preliminary restriction zone pending Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut confirmation of H5N1.
- Widespread stall orders expanded across districts in Hesse, NRW and elsewhere, as mass wild-bird die‑offs—over 1,500 cranes at Kelbra and more than 2,200 near Linum—reinforce the risk of spillover from migratory birds.