04.04.2013

A fourth person has died (Man, 48, engaged in chickens and ducks transportation work - Jiangsu province)  of H7N9 avian influenza infection and another person (A 64-year-old farmer from Wuxing district in Huzhou city , hospitalized March 29, Zhejiang province) is in hospital after contracting the virus.
These infections bring the death toll to four and the total number of reported cases of humans infected with the virus to 11.

A number of human infections of the H7N9 virus have been reported in eastern China, mostly in the Yangtze River Delta region since late March 2013. Some of the patients have died of severe pneumonia brought on by the virus.