H7N9 Chinese Experts Fear an Epidemic

They're acknowledging that it's getting stronger, which I read to be more adapted to humans. It's developing a taste for the receptors in our airways and lungs, and it's beginning to feel comfortable with our body temperature. I don't think that there's any doubt that H7N9 is moving closer to a fully H2H virus. Whether it gets there is anyone's guess right now.
Fingers crossed that in a couple of years we'll still be here, laughing at how panicked we got back in 2014 over nothing.

Exactly - no contact with poultry, but ample exposure to people with flu-like symptoms. It was undoubtedly H2H, but how efficiently at this stage?
And how long before we see the emergence of the first super spreader?

I totally agree, Josh. Pigs are excellent mixing vessels for flu strains that can later infect humans, and there are half a billion of them in China. The presence of so many viruses at one time in a country known to be more than capable of producing novel strains by virtue of the way they raise food animals is disturbing. H1N1 and H7N9 in particular worry me. The offspring that could be generated by that pair (or indeed H1N1 and H5N1/H5N2/H6N1/H10N8) could be the one that brought us all here - a true novel pandemic strain, the like of which we haven't seen in almost a hundred years.