(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) A 59-year-old man having close contact with live poultry died on Monday of the H7N9 flu virus, the first of its kind in central China's Hunan province, local authority said.
A separate statement issued by the health department of Guangdong province on Monday said a patient died of the virus on Sunday in Foshan after treatment faile
With the new cases, H7N9 has so far killed 25 people in China since January, and the number of human infections has been 113, with Zhejiang and Guangdong being mostly affected, according to (Xinhua) news agency
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