1 February 2026
Following successful completion of disease control activities and surveillance around a premises near Ashcott, Wells and Mendip Hills, Somerset (AIV 2025/116), the 10km surveillance zone has been revoked.
Following successful completion of disease control activities and surveillance in the zone surrounding a premises near Thorne, Doncaster, South Yorkshire (AIV 2025/104), the 3km protection zone has ended and the 10km surveillance zone has been revoked.
30 January 2026
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 was confirmed in a small poultry flock near Needham Market, Mid Suffolk, Suffolk (AIV 2026/12). A 3km protection zone and 10km surveillance zone has been declared around the premises. All poultry on the premises will be humanely culled.
Following successful completion of disease control activities and surveillance in the zone around the following:
- a premises near Gainsborough, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire (AIV 2025/110)
- a second premises near Gainsborough, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire (AIV 2025/115)
- a premises near Dalton-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria (AIV2025/111)
- a premises near Newark-on-Trent, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire (AIV 2025/136, previously AIV SOS 2025/04)
The protection zones around each have ended and the area that formed them become part of the surveillance zone.
Following successful completion of disease control activities and surveillance in the zone around a premises near Castle Hedingham, Braintree, Essex (AIV 2025/123), the 3km captive bird (monitoring) controlled zone has been revoked.
29 January 2026
Following successful completion of disease control activities and surveillance in the zone around a commercial poultry premises near Lydd, Folkstone and Hythe, Kent (AIV 2025/113), the surveillance zone has been revoked.
27 January 2026
Following successful completion of disease control activities and surveillance in the zone around a premises near Watton, Breckland, Norfolk (AIV 2025/102) the captive bird (monitoring) controlled zone has revoked.
25 January 2026
Following successful completion of disease control activities and surveillance within the zone around a premises near Driffield, Bridlington and the Wolds, East Riding of Yorkshire (AIV 2025/107), the 3km protection zone has ended and the area that formed it becomes part of the surveillance zone.
Following successful completion of disease control activities and surveillance within the zone around a premises near Lydd, Folkestone and Hythe, Kent (AIV 2025/113), the 3km protection zone has ended and the area that formed it becomes part of the surveillance zone.
Following successful completion of disease control activities and surveillance within the zone around a premises near Brockworth, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, (AIV 2025/127), the 3km protection zone has ended and the area that formed it becomes part of the surveillance zone.