18.12.2021

The 2021 avian influenza epidemic in European Countries appears to be one of the largest HPAI epidemics that has ever occurred in Europe. HPAI virus detections were reported in wild birds and poultry in Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, The Netherlands, Sweden, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Norway, France, Romania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, Portugal, Northern Ireland, UK, Russia and Greece. As of December 12, a total of 1,516 HPAI outbreaks in poultry had been reported to the EC by 22 European states.
Italy has reported more than 200 outbreaks in poultry farms especially in fattening turkey farms.

Number of highly pathogenic avian influenza positive events notified per poultry category each week from October 2020 (Source: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie 17/12/2021)