HPAI H7N5 in Germany
4 July, 2024
Germany is reporting an outbreak of HPAI H7N5 at a laying farm (91,000 birds) in Bad Bentheim, on their border with the Netherlands. Clinical signs in affected animals included reduced feed intake, listlessness and edematous head appendages prior to acute death within hours to 2-3 days after onset. Within two days mortality amounted to 6.000 hens (7%) before the remaining birds were culled and safely disposed of without delay.
Since 2003, no outbreak with a highly pathogenic of serotype H7 has occurred so close to the Netherlands. For now, the big concern with this outbreak is the close proximity of a large number of poultry farms.
