Overview
- Emergency crews recovered more than 40 dead swans from the Rudersee in Michelau after the national lab confirmed H5N1 in one swan, and officials set up decontamination and urged people to avoid the shoreline and leash dogs.
- An outbreak at a duck-fattening farm in Altlangsow near Seelow led to the culling of 20,000 Pekin ducks, with a three-kilometer protection zone and strict housing orders imposed on nearby poultry keepers.
- Weltvogelpark Walsrode euthanized 80 seabirds after infections were detected in a separate aviary, closed the park temporarily, and targets reopening by March 14 while saying adjacent enclosures are not affected.
- Zoo Osnabrück reported a suspected H5N1 case in a dead rhea (Nandu), culled the two remaining birds as a precaution, awaits confirmation from the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, and remains open with rerouted visitor paths.
- Officials cite winter conditions that weaken birds and concentrate flocks as drivers of spread, and Brandenburg reports 18 farm outbreaks since autumn with more than 250,000 poultry culled.