Avian influenza case has been reported in China's southwest province of Guizhou Wednesday, Chinese news agency says. A probe shows that the infected patient had contact history with live poultry.
Chinese Guangdong province has repeatedly found bird flu cases since January 2015.
The first case of H7N9 bird flu in humans was reported in China in March 2013, after which an outbreak occurred in Spring 2013 which resulted in 132 human infections and claimed the lives of 44 people, the WHO reports. The organization estimates the overall fatality rate from the virus to be 22 percent, based on confirmed cases. To date there has been no sustained evidence of human- to to-human transmission of the disease.
