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China has reported one more death from the H7N9 strain of bird flu in southwestern Guizhou province, the second death from the virus in the past week, according to state news agency Xinhua on Monday.
A 38-year old man from Zunyi city died last Thursday, Xinhua said, citing health authorities in Guizhou.
Xinhua said it was the first human case of H7N9 in Guizhou in 2014.
Last Friday, China said a 38 year old man in eastern Fujian province died from H7N9.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said last week that seven more people in China had been found to be infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu in the previous week, taking to around 150 the total number of cases so far.
The H7N9 bird flu emerged 2013 in China and has infected around 150 people and in Taiwan and Hong Kong, killing at least 45 of them.
Experts say there is no evidence as yet of any easy or sustained person to person transmission of the strain.
However, an early scientific analysis of probable transmission of the new flu from person to person, published in August 2013, gave the strongest proof that it can at times jump between people and so could cause a human pandemic.
The WHO said that the source of the human infections was still being investigated.
A 38-year old man from Zunyi city died last Thursday, Xinhua said, citing health authorities in Guizhou.
Xinhua said it was the first human case of H7N9 in Guizhou in 2014.
Last Friday, China said a 38 year old man in eastern Fujian province died from H7N9.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said last week that seven more people in China had been found to be infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu in the previous week, taking to around 150 the total number of cases so far.
The H7N9 bird flu emerged 2013 in China and has infected around 150 people and in Taiwan and Hong Kong, killing at least 45 of them.
Experts say there is no evidence as yet of any easy or sustained person to person transmission of the strain.
However, an early scientific analysis of probable transmission of the new flu from person to person, published in August 2013, gave the strongest proof that it can at times jump between people and so could cause a human pandemic.
The WHO said that the source of the human infections was still being investigated.
