China: Markets Close Due to Worsening H7N9

^Thanks, Coyote!  I'm hearing similar stories as well.  

Fewer and fewer cases yet they're shutting down another wet market? Something doesn't add up I'm afraid.

It's the Chinese authorities doing what they do best - rather than working with international health agencies to coordinate a global response to a potential pandemic, they're trying to save face and handle it in their own half-assed way. Again.
In a token gesture, they'll shut down a few markets just long enough to keep up appearances but not enough to impact the spread, deny that it's in domestic flocks under pressure from their agricultural ministry, and then do nothing to control the trade that will continue to flourish on the black market. And the net result will be the problem driven further under the radar than it is already, and yet another opportunity lost in learning about H7N9's behavior.
The steady increase in cases that we've seen in recent months appears to be stabilizing or even slowing, no bloggers are chiming in with news - and yet they're closing markets again. It all points to a pattern that we saw last year when China started to feel the heat and decided it was time to shut down the flow of information.