Overview

• The infected holding is in Garrel, Landkreis Cloppenburg, where authorities confirmed H5N1 and ordered humane killing of the flock.
• The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut confirmed the virus after initial detection by the Lebensmittel- und Veterinärinstitut Oldenburg.
• Landkreis Oldenburg set up an adjoining surveillance zone covering Großenkneten and Wardenburg with a stall obligation, movement bans, and stricter biosafety rules.
• Lower Saxony’s agriculture ministry called this the first case of the autumn and the tenth outbreak this year, urging strict compliance with farm biosafety plans.
• Separately, an earlier case in Landkreis Greiz (Thuringia) remains under a 10‑kilometre monitoring regime covering about 700 holdings with a stall requirement in place at least through the end of the month.