Jishou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Jishou CDC) received a phone call at 7:30 a.m. on April 24, 2020 from Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefectural CDC (Xiangxi CDC) that avian influenza A/H9N2 virus was detected by quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) from the throat swab sample of an influenza-like illness in an outpatient in the Xiangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.