Overview
- The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority is depopulating the infected broiler farm in Opende to contain the virus.
- A transport ban now applies across 10 kilometres for poultry, hatching and table eggs, manure, used litter, and other animals or animal products from premises with birds.
- Three farms within 3 kilometres are being screened by NVWA, and there are no other poultry farms within 1 kilometre of the site.
- Twenty-nine poultry operations fall within the broader 10‑kilometre zone, which largely overlaps with Drogeham outbreaks confirmed on 7 and 14 November.
- NVWA has begun tracing potentially risky contacts with possible extra sampling or blocking of contact premises, while nationwide housing and shielding rules have been in force since 16 October.