Overview
- FLI says state and national laboratories are nearing capacity as new poultry-holding outbreaks are logged daily.
- About 1.5 million kept birds have died or been culled since early September, with roughly 800 confirmed wild-bird cases and rising.
- Infected farms typically face whole-flock culling, with affected holdings sometimes numbering in the tens of thousands of birds.
- Czech authorities report new H5N1 detections in commercial operations in Valdikov and Lanskroun, signaling renewed cross-border spread.
- The German Animal Welfare Federation urges cat owners to avoid raw poultry and contact with wild birds, noting no confirmed infected domestic cats in Germany and no available feline vaccine.