Overview
- Saarland’s order takes effect October 30 for an initial four weeks, covers all kept birds, bans poultry events and allows fines up to €30,000 for violations.
- Hamburg will enact a citywide stall requirement from October 31, requiring poultry to be kept indoors or under secured coverings and suspending shows and markets.
- The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut reports 35 outbreaks in commercial flocks since early September and virus confirmation in roughly 160 wild birds, with mass crane deaths recorded, while health authorities assess human risk as very low with no German cases.
- Regional measures are widening as most Brandenburg counties impose confinement and several districts in Lower Saxony keep birds indoors to reduce contact with migratory wildlife.
- In Saxony-Anhalt, a suspected outbreak at a Mansfeld-Südharz laying-hen farm triggered the culling of about 40,000 birds, with a control zone to follow if lab confirmation is returned.