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Animal Disease Monitoring Update, 27 October 2026: bird flu reaches farms in Denmark and Germany
A walk around the live map of official animal disease reports for the week to 27 October 2026. Bird flu has reached poultry farms in Denmark and Germany, and the government's scientists set out why autumn brings it to Britain. Poland has a Newcastle disease outbreak on a farm of 473,000 laying hens, and in Brazil a virus found on a turkey farm closely matched a pigeon form of the virus. Bluetongue passes 3,445 premises in the United Kingdom, with fewer new cases than earlier in October. Plus African swine fever in Europe, foot-and-mouth disease in Namibia, sheep and goat pox in Romania and rabies in Armenia and Bhutan.
The video description on YouTube lists the source for every figure.
Chapters
- 0:00473,170 birds on one farm (opens in a new tab)
- 0:18This week (opens in a new tab)
- 0:34Bird flu in European poultry (opens in a new tab)
- 1:26Bird flu in wild birds (opens in a new tab)
- 1:57Bird flu in Great Britain (opens in a new tab)
- 2:42Newcastle disease (opens in a new tab)
- 4:05Bluetongue (opens in a new tab)
- 5:11African swine fever (opens in a new tab)
- 6:05Elsewhere (opens in a new tab)
- 6:34Close (opens in a new tab)