Overview
- In Märkisch-Oderland, authorities revised cull plans to roughly 130,000 birds, starting Sunday with 80,000 ducks in Neuhardenberg and moving to 50,000 broilers in Neutrebbin.
- The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut reports about 400,000 commercial birds have been killed nationwide so far and keeps its outbreak risk at high, warning of a dynamic situation.
- The institute confirmed the virus in two dead cranes in Berlin, as mass crane die-offs continue in Brandenburg’s Linumer Teichland with roughly 1,200 carcasses recovered.
- Protection and surveillance zones, stall-in rules and transport restrictions are in force in affected areas, and officials say the general population risk is low but advise avoiding sick or dead wild birds.
- Industry groups push for a nationwide indoor-housing order, the federal ministry has asked the EU to raise per-animal compensation to up to €110, and one farm in Neuhardenberg faces about €500,000 in losses with 30 days of barn closures.