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Health authorities in southern China confirmed the first death related to the H7N9 bird flu after several cases emerged in December 2013.
Dec 26:
Hong Kong's government said Dec. 26 that an 80-year-old man infected with H7N9 bird flu has died, marking the first such death in the city since the virus was reported there in early December. The man, the second person to be diagnosed with the virus in Hong Kong, lived in Shenzhen and had eaten poultry there.
Dec 2:
Health officials in Hong Kong confirmed their first case of H7N9 late Dec. 2. The patient, who has been hospitalized and in critical condition, is a 36-year old domestic worker from Indonesia who had traveled to mainland China. Officials are looking at people who had close contact with the worker.
Dec 18:
A 62-year-old man in Guangdong province was listed in critical condition from the illness on Dec. 18, health authorities said. Two cases of H7N9 were reported in Guangdong days earlier, involving a 39-year-old man and 65-year-old woman -- both were in critical condition.
Nov 7:
H7N9 killed about 45 of the 138 people who were infected as of Nov. 7. There's no vaccine against the H7N9 strain of bird flu. Another virulent strain of the bird flu, H5N1, has killed some 11 people in 2013 and about 360 in the last decade.
