Overview
- Niedersachsen reports 32 outbreaks since early October with about 682,000 birds dead or culled, stall-housing applies in 23 districts and officials say no farm-to-farm spread has been detected.
- Brandenburg confirms infections in 12 holdings with more than 170,000 animals killed as the state flags persistent risk from virus circulation in wild birds.
- Southern spread intensifies with Influenza A detections in Bavarian districts pending FLI pathotyping and an H5N1‑positive greylag goose confirmed in Heilbronn, with labs assessing transmission risk as high.
- Lower Saxony conducts new containment operations in Diepholz, where 18,000 turkeys are being culled and protection and surveillance zones impose movement restrictions.
- Zoos in Munich and Nuremberg cover or close aviaries and raise hygiene standards, Dresden urges stalling of flocks, egg demand and prices edge up, and animal-welfare officials criticize mass culls and call for preventive options.