Authorities in some Chinese regions have ordered health institutions to step up monitoring of H7N9 bird flu. Photo: Xinhua
Health authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang had confirmed that one person infected with the H7N9 avian flu virus had died in the provincial capital city of Hangzhou, a Chinese newspaper reported.
Another patient diagnosed as being infected with the virus was still under going treatment, said The Beijing News, a prestigious newspaper based in the Chinese capital, via one of its Weibo social media accounts on Wednesday afternoon.
The paper did not give further details. The two new cases bring the total number of confirmed human infections of H7N9 avian flu virus in China to nine. At least three of these patients have died, according to the latest media reports.
All the confirmed patients so far live in the Yangtze River delta region. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1206299/hangzhou-man-dies-h7n9-avian-flu-virus
