Watt Poultry To date in 2025, a total of 699 outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have been recorded in commercial poultry farms in 23 European countries.
This is according to the Animal Disease Information System from the European Commission (EC; as of December 24). This database monitors outbreaks of listed animal diseases in European Union member states and selected adjacent countries. For comparison, 20 states registered 451 outbreaks in this category with the system during the whole of 2024.
So far this year, Germany had confirmed the most outbreaks on poultry farms with the EC System at 172, followed by Poland (117), Hungary (107), France (103), and Italy (64).
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