Despite experience that avian influenza incidence rates decline in Europe after the beginning of  April, outbreaks of H5 avian influenza are still reported in areas of high poultry density in Germany.  ProMED-Mail reports H5N8 in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony-Anhalt.  A total of 10 individual farm outbreaks have been recorded since the beginning of April requiring depletion of approximately 120,000 commercial poultry including broilers, growing and breeding turkeys, ducks, and egg production flocks.

Authorities in Germany implement mandatory depletion, quarantine, and surveillance in accordance with E.U. directives and OIE recommendations.