An increasing number of poultry farms in Germany are being affected by bird flu. Since the beginning of September, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute has recorded around 31 outbreaks of the virus in livestock farming and 131 cases of avian influenza in wild birds.
This autumn, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute reported that this is happening unusually early and rapidly. More than 500,000 chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys have already had to be killed. A particularly high number of cases have been recorded in eastern Germany and Lower Saxony.
