On January 16, 2015, officials from the China Health and Family Planning Commission confirmed one new H7N9 influenza infection in a 34-year-old male in Jiangxi Province. Currently, the case is hospitalized. The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) decided to raise the travel notice level for Jiangxi Province to Level 2: Alert for avian influenza. In light of recent H7N9 cases that occurred in China, Taiwan CDC has issued a travel notice of Level 2: Alert for avian influenza to Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, Guangdong Province, Fujian Province, Shanghai City, and Jiangxi Province, and a travel notice of Level 1: Watch for avian influenza to the other provinces and cities in China, excluding Hong Kong and Macau. Travelers visiting China are urged to practice good personal hygiene and avoid contact with poultry and birds and consume only thoroughly cooked poultry and eggs to ward off infection.

Since October 1, 2014, a cumulative total of 54 H7N9 influenza infections have been confirmed in China, including 14 in Fujian Province, 12 in Guangdong Province, 9 in Zhejiang Province, 8 in Jiangsu Province, 6 in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, 1 in Shandong Province (imported from Jiangsu Province), 1 in Jiangxi Province, 1 in Beijing City, 1 in Shanghai City, and 1 in Hong Kong (imported from Guangdong Province). Since March 31, 2013, a cumulative total of 507 H7N9 influenza infections, including 182 deaths, have been confirmed.

Taiwan CDC once again urges travelers visiting China to practice good personal hygiene such as washing hands frequently and putting on a mask when coughing and take preventive measures such as avoiding direct contact with poultry and birds or their droppings/dead bodies, and consuming only thoroughly cooked poultry and eggs. If influenza-like illness symptoms develop upon arriving in Taiwan, please voluntarily notify the airline crew and the quarantine officer at the quarantine station in the airport. If the above-mentioned symptoms such as fever and cough develop after returning to Taiwan, please put on a surgical mask and seek immediate medical attention.  Moreover, please inform the physician of the recent travel and exposure history to facilitate diagnosis and treatment. For more information, please visit the Taiwan CDC website at http://www.cdc.gov.tw or call the toll-free Communicable Disease Reporting and Consultation Hotline, 1922 (or 0800-001922).