Overview
- A red-breasted goose at Augsburg Zoo tested positive for H5N1, triggering closed housing for susceptible birds, a temporary Tropenhaus closure, testing, and staff hygiene measures.
- The zoo and the Christmas Garden remain open, and visitors are urged to avoid direct contact with animals.
- Augsburg has not issued a blanket stall order for poultry, though keepers are told to enforce strict biosecurity.
- Waldeck‑Frankenberg’s new order keeps housing mandatory for farms with more than 1,000 birds countywide and for more than 50 birds in Edersee risk zones, with event bans and heightened biosafety still in place.
- Officials in Waldeck‑Frankenberg report a shift to infections in resident waterfowl around the Edersee, ask the public to report sick or dead wild birds, and local media say about 100 geese and ducks on a farm were culled earlier in the week.