I agree, it doesn't add up. They are quarantining 13,000 people for 7 to 21 days to kill 2,500 birds? Either the reporting in this article is severely misleading or significant facts are not being reported.
I doubt the translation for quaratine were correct. Probably limited movement...but not total quaratine. This will scare the heck out of the EU guys if they really did this. Germany has been quietly talking about how it will react....but won't discuss the matter in public. I can see mass hysteria if the plan comes out and suggest that entire towns would be shut down for 10 days. You'd destroy the economy overnight. You could watch stock markets crumble over an entire summer of rolling quartines.