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The World Health Organization  (WHO) has not been providing cumulative case counts of H7N9 cases in their Disease Outbreak News reports. This may be due to incomplete and inconsistent case information that has been provided to WHO by the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of China. Perhaps the most accurate enumeration of H7N9 cases is provided by the Centre for Health Protection (CHP), Department of Health, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.They report "As of yesterday ( February 27, 2014 ), a total of 367 human cases of avian influenza A(H7N9) have been confirmed in the Mainland, including Zhejiang (136 cases), Guangdong (81 cases), Jiangsu (42 cases), Shanghai (41 cases), Fujian (20 cases), Hunan (16 cases), Anhui (nine cases), Jiangxi (six cases), Beijing (four cases), Henan (four cases), Guangxi (three cases), Shandong (two cases), Guizhou (one case, imported from Zhejiang), Hebei (one case) and Jilin (one case).cases), Shandong (two cases), Guizhou...

 Influenza A(H7N9) is a novel infectious bird flu strain that burst on the world's stage at the beginning of April 2013. Since then at least 132 individuals have been infected and more than 35 have died. [1] In an article entitled Taiwan faces challenges on the emerging avian influenza A (H7N9) virus in China [2], researchers from Taiwan raise concerns over this novel influenza virus because it is a low path avian influenza virus (LPAI) in birds. This means that it does not kill off its avian hosts and is more difficult to detect in domesticated poultry and wild birds. The researchers note that after the closing the live poultry markets in Shanghai on April 5, the number of human cases caused by A(H7N9) virus dramatically decreased in that province. They speculate that A(H7N9) virus may spread silently in poultry in China and eventually spread globally through the migration of wild birds. They include a graphic depicting the geographic relation of humans cases in eastern po...