Death toll from new China bird flu rises: WHO

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Death toll from new China bird flu rises: WHO

Six more people in China have been confirmed as infected with the new H7N9 strain of bird flu and one of them has died, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday. H7N9 bird flu emerged last year in China and has infected around 150 people so far there and in Taiwan and Hong Kong, killing at least 46 of them. The latest death was a 38-year-old man from China's Fujian Province who became ill with H7N9 on January 3, was admitted to hospital on January 8 but died 2 days later. China's state news agency Xinhua reported another death from H7N9 in the southwestern Guizhou province on Monday, but this has yet to be confirmed by the WHO.

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